Newman's friend wrote:

> I think we could also start to evoke doubts in
> the administrators by encouraging people to ask sweetly about what the
> hospital's legal liability might be if one of the children to whom the
> formula was provided by staff turns out to have adverse reactions to
>>it-- asthma, say, or IDDM, or chronic otitis media... Especially >because
>international standards of practice have been established (by >the Code)
>and the hospital in going against those standards for >monetary gain is
>taking a position that will leave it very vulnerable >both in terms of PR
>and in the US court system.

I heard a case of someone who was given a discharge pack in the hospital
(what is against the law in the Netherlands). This mother is diabetic, and
her child was given formula in the first days ('until the milk comes in').
I think this is so unbelievable.... I usually encourage such people to
write a complaint to the hospital and point them to the risk they've put on
the child.

Annelies Bon        http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/abon/bfbronnen.html
breastfeeding counsellor of the Dutch bf org "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"
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