>In case you missed it,  Moms Feeding Freedom
>http://www.momsfeedingfreedom.com/index.php/stories/index/10
>is a website set up by the International Formula Council.


<snip> 

>There is also a petition one can sign (anti-Ban the Bags) and a
>section for mothers' stories.
>All of the stories are about how mothers struggled to breastfeed,
>and/or were relieved that formula saved their sanity/children's lives
>etc. etc.


These stories are testimony to the way poor breastfeeding support and 
absolutely dreadful information leads to women using formula - in 
every case, the mother could almost certainly have breastfed with the 
right help.

>The stories are  *reviewed prior to posting.*  I guess this means that
>they are censored?


It would be normal to moderate stories to make sure they are not full 
of obscenities and so on, but I imagine they would not want to 
include a story that went against their 'philosophy' either.

I am stunned at how free formula samples  have become linked to the 
idea of personal freedom of choice in infant feeding. What a PR coup 
by the formula manufacturers! Now, with this website, they're 
recruiting mothers to do their campaigning for them - it's just 
amazing.  In the wrong way.

No one elsewhere in the world expects free formula samples, any more 
than they expect free baby clothes!

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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