Oh please do Gloria.  And anyone else can forward it on to anywhere
appropriate - after all, there will be midwives from all over the world
at this event.

I've heard from midwives who've said "I am always going on about this
and I'm ignored so I've given up."   Time to give those voices a bit
more weight, or rather, volume!  :-)

RCM regularly run adverts from formula companies in their in-house
magazine too.  Apparently, they need a vote at an AGM to ban them.  So
all the voices do need to be raised!  I imagine there will be code
breakers in the stands, never mind in the hotel catering cupboards.

And hopefully, Jeannine Parvati Baker's voice will be heard again in
Glasgow, singing out from a myriad of mouths and hearts!  :-)

Speak Up.  Speak Out.  Speak True.

Morgan Gallagher

 Birth wrote:
> Dear Morgan, I'm on the ukmidwifery list if you want me to repost your
> message, below, there.  Just let me know and I'd be glad to do it.
>
> I was at a Waterbirth International Conference in Portland Ore some years
> ago when Jeannine Parvati Baker stood up at lunch and announced that all the
> tea, coffee, sugar, etc packets that were used by the hotel were Nestle and
> that we should be respecting the CODE and not using hotels where Nestle
> products are purchased.  She had already spoken to the hotel staff (I think
> it was Marriot) and they had shown an interest in receiving info and stated
> that they would comply once they were educated.  I remember that incident
> better than anything else I learned at the Conference.  We have to be
> vigilant about pointing out the creeping creeps.
>

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