Having recently delivered in the hospital I practice in, I was dismayed to realize our nurses give every discharged mom one of those gift bags from the formula company. I actually had to argue with the nurse who discharged me as I refused to take one home. She kept saying "But it's such a nice bag and your daughter could use it for her stuff if you don't want it." I kept trying to explain that I didn't want to be a walking formula company advertisement, nor do I want my 8 year old daughter to be one either! I know these gift bags have been discussed here before. Our nurses tell me that many moms do feel they are being denied something due them if they don't get their "free gift" from the hospital. I don't know how to convince either the nurses or the patients that formula companies are not giving these things away out of the goodness of their hearts. Have any of you who are not in baby friendly environments had any success in getting rid of these things? Jennifer Tieman Family Physician Mom to 4, including Caroline Rose born 5/31/03 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html