Bravo Maria:  I don't see why anyone should be offended by your post.  It
is quite sensible.  Whenever I read a heading on gift packs on Lactnet, I
just skip over it.  Here in Honduras, people and hospitals are very poor in
general and we never even think of spending the money and the scarce staff
time it would take to do gift packs.  We're lucky if we even have any
written materials to give away.

Way back in the early days of our breastfeeding program, we used to get
some support from a local Lions Club to have a yearly celebration for
health breastfed babies, but not as any regular thing.

I don't think that mothers  breastfeed just because we give her a "gift
pack" -- I don't think it works that way -- however, if we put some energy
into making sure she DOESN'T get the OTHER kind of gift pack -- then that
ought to have a positive effect on breastfeeding.

We certainly found that NOT giving free samples or literature about ABM had
a positive effect.





World Breastfeeding Week  1997 - "Nature's Way"
Judy Canahuati
PO Box #512
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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