I think this is going to be nitpicking.
The so-called milk containers are obviously bottles, as every one will see and notice at first glance. And allthought not named as such everyone will recognise the opening in the lid to be meant to harbouring a nipple and even by naming it a possible feeding cup, the cap obviously is designed to cover a nipple. It just is not named as such. ''That Thing that Shall Not Be Named'' so to say. Perhaps a cultural thing, but in my neck of the world this kind of portraying is viewed as being hypocritical, where as Medela is naming his stuff for what it is, thus being viewed as honest. Really, if it is not to be a bottle, don't model it like one. Use a jar or such instaed and don't add parts that enable to turn the ''container'' to turn into a bottle with nipple.
I don't want to embrace Medela or any other pump industry, being or not Code compliant. In the real world pumps are business and one company chooses to be Code compliant to be succesfull and the other not. Both just want to sell their merchandise. If and when a pump company arises that sells good functioning pump with milk-receivers that in no way even remotely resemble baby (feeding) bottles I wil be the first to endorse those. In the mean time, I don't see much difference in ethics. I'd rather use my energy to fight mechanismes that endorse any kind of detached mothering styles, be it commercial or ideological.
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL, MOM in southern Netherlands
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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] Hygeia
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 8:21 PM
Marianne has asked about the Hygeia website. The product pictured is a milk
storage container. Storage containers are not covered by the Code, there are no
artificial nipples mentioned or shown with the container which would turn it
into a feeding bottle, and there is no language stating that it can be used as a
feeding bottle. So this is Code compliant.
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA
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