a couple of things:

World Breastfeeding Week awareness:
Our WIC program collected handknitted baby hats in the shape of  
various fruits and vegetables (apple hats, strawberry hats, blueberry  
hats etc you get the idea)to coincide with WIC's nutrition message  
and to gift to the mothers on the program that are breastfeeding.   
Since I had posted the request on a very popular knitting blog the  
response has been overwhelming and to date I have received 125 baby  
hats from all over the world, the furthest being UK and HI.  This has  
been a really fun promotion for everyone: the knitters, the WIC staff  
and the moms and babies receiving the hats.  I plan to take some  
really cool pictures.

Boston Billow Nursing Pillow
An LC friend of mine who is not currently on Lactnet asked if I could  
post this for her.  She (and I) have no financial link to the  
company, just posting it as a courtesy to the company since we posted  
here about the initial controversy.

  Thank you, lactation consultants !

GOOD NEWS!

You may know that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in  
January 2004, issued a ban on the Boston Billow nursing pillow, based  
on a complaint from a competitor. *The ban DID NOT include the Boston  
Billow nursing pillow with the vipeable cover for use in hospitals  
(NICUs).

The ban caused an uproar among lactation consultants and numerous  
IBCLCs wrote letters to the CPSC in support of the Boston Pillow  
nursing pillow.
In July 2005, we submitted an amendment to the CPSC requesting that  
an exemption be made to the C.F.R. regulations the CPSC referred to  
so that “an exemption be made when the product is specifically  
designed, intended and promoted for mothers to use when breastfeeding  
and when requested by a pediatrician or a board certified lactation  
consultant.”
In other words, that the Boston Billow nursing pillow could AGAIN be  
available for mothers that needed it, when requested by a  
pediatrician or an IBCLC.

The amendment was published in the Federal Register, soliciting  
comments. According to a CPSC report, one comment was from Safe Kids  
Worldwide.  They have never seen a Boston Billow nursingpillow. The  
other negative comment came from Susan Brown, CEO of the Boppy  
Company !!!
In the end, the CPSC Commissioners, unanimously, voted in our favor  
to grant our petition.

The next step in this process is  that the CPSC will publish an  
“advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) in the Federal  
Register, again inviting comments from the public.  This means that  
we again will need the great grass-root support we received from you,  
the lactation consultants around the country.

We will keep you informed.

S. Erik Skoug
President
Boston Billows, Inc.
End of letter

Hope all your WBW plans go well.

Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC, LLLL, WIC BF Co
Listmom wicbfnet and MLCANET
Brockton, MA



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