>Isn't it raising the status of the formula? I try to "copy" (in my 
>thoughts) this way of working with formula to my own country (the 
>Netherlands, Europe) but I keep getting images from 
>formula-sales-persons with soft smiles and words like: doctor knows 
>best.....


I think making formula only available on prescription  *in the 
community* would be disastrous -  making doctors responsible for 
infant feeding decisions was one of the reasons we got into this mess 
in the first place!

But checking the use of it in hospital, making the mothers (and 
midwives aware) that it is a Big Deal to supplement with formula and 
that it has health risks and risks to continued breastfeeding, is a 
different issue, I would say.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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