'Physicians and other health-care providers in the developing world were 
bribed by formula manufacturers to steer patients away from breastfeeding and toward a particular brand of synthetic infant nutrition. Age-old cultural norms of exclusive and extended breastfeeding were disrupted as huge advertising campaigns convinced women that commercial infant formula was the "modern, sterile, western" way to feed babies. New mothers were lured into giving birth in hospitals funded by infant formula manufacturers. There, these women were encouraged to offer bottles of artificial breastmilk substitutes -- a practice proven to disrupt breastfeeding. 

Mothers and babies were then sent home with a small "free" supply 
of infant formula. By the time the supply ran out, baby was refusing the breast, mother's own milk supply was diminished, and the typical, impoverished family was unable to pay for any more infant formula. These practices, combined with an unsanitary water supply, lack of sterilization and refrigeration facilities, and poor access to medical care, conspired to kill millions of third-world babies each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). " Formula for Disaster* 


If you have the shocking pictures and more info.  (FROM ABOVE) of what happend after infants were fed artificially, i would love to have them.  The infor. written above...sounds very familiar!!!!  I love BFHs!!!

thank you,

rosellina from sicily


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