In the past when I've bought things at Motherhood, they requested my
address, etc. I didn't give it to them. For the moms, doing a baby registry
can also generate these types of mailings.

Renata Mangrum, MPH, RD.
http://nurturingnotes.blogspot.com
http://infantfeedinghistory.blogspot.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/renatamangrum


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joann Charnock <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I've received stuff like that from Similac, several months ago, and I had
> not been shopping
> for baby stuff.  My impression, at the time, was, that they must have
> gotten my name from
> a site where I was listed as IBCLC.  I know that is ironic, but that's all
> that I could think of,
> at the time.  Anyway, that was really cleaver for you to post that here!  I
> hadn't thought of
> that.  You'll probably be hearing of a lot more that this has happened to.
>
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