Yes, Karleen you are correct.  I only hope this will open the eyes of some folks 
who think that a little supplementing here and there doesn't do any harm.   In 
the ealier blogs about why babies are supplemented, most of the reasons (if I 
am correct) were because of maternal perception of inadequate milk supply. I 
am not trying to promote anything unethical, rather shedding light on a 
subject that I know from my own experience many in the medical profession 
don't realize how much harm they are doing.  I do hope that those babies that 
were supplemented were being done by choice of the parents however poor a 
choice it was.  I would be terribly upset if it were done for the sole purpose of 
making a point.,  or just to do a study.  I am hoping someone had the forsight 
to see what was happening and tried to expose it for what it was doing to the 
babies and to moms milk supply.  Please don't shoot the messenger.  I will be 
sharing this at the hospital where I work.  Not to glamorize the supplementing 
in any way shape or form, but to educate where it is sorely lacking.
Understand your dismay at the study.  Maybe those parents in the 
supplementing group learned something valuable.  Unfortunately, at the price 
of the ones who had no voice.

best,
robin

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