Hey I'm getting really concerned about what I'm hearing from the States re
sending mothers home with formula and, even worse, the CASE or two of
formula arriving unsolicited on the doorstep - both of these are fantastic
marketing ploys.
The US is a signatory to the WHO Code - are these violations being reported.
Surely something can be done about it.
The other issue is one of privacy - I work in a maternity unit and we are
forbidden to give anybody's name to anyone on pain of death.  How are these
company's getting the names of patients.  What if the woman didn't want the
world to know she'd had a baby, for whatever reason?
This practice has to stop - has anyone got any good ideas about how to go
about it?

Denise Fisher
Brisbane, Australia

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