I submitted a criticism of the article, as I'm sure many of you did, and received two responses today - first one from the NIH Contractor at National Library of Medicine who told me I needed to submit my complaint to the "news service from which they originated", which seems rather a lame response to me - basically saying, "we didn't write it - we just passed it along".

But then I received a second response from MedlinePlus saying the article had been removed and directing me to the "wealth of breast feeding information on MedlinePlus at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/breastfeeding.html".

Out of curiosity, I followed that link and glanced through all of the articles submitted taken from the Nemours Foundation.  I've never heard of that organization before now.  I felt that all of their articles contained similar errors.  

One of my favorites, "Commercially prepared infant formulas are a nutritious alternative to breast milk, and even contain some vitamins and nutrients that breastfed babies need to get from supplements." from http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/feeding/breast_bottle_feeding.html# .

Has anybody else looked at these?

Ellen

Ellen Rubin, MA, IBCLC, LLLL

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