Hi Renee, Promoting breastfeeding fits right in with emergency preparedness because if women are breastfeeding they do not need to do anything to prepare specifically for their babies' wellbeing except look after themselves and adults are much less vulnerable than babies. An adult can keep hydrating on coke if nothing else is available but not so babies. What I found quite amazing with the situation in New Orleans was that practices did not change even as the disaster unfolded. Right up until Katrina hit, women and their babies continued to be discharged from maternity hospitals not breastfeeding. In spite of what had become clear in the days immediately following Katrina (ie formula fed babies dying or becoming very ill because they did not have food), when Hurricane Rita hit Texas weeks later, many more babies were put at risk as artificial feeding remained the norm. WHY?? I think you can safely say in your seminar that if people do not want their babies to be put at risk if there is an emergency then they will breastfeed because in any emergency artifically fed babies are in a very precarious situation. Karleen Gribble Australia We are going to be having an area wide seminar on emergency preparedness in > the near future. I would like to develop a plan, explaining the importance > of breast feeding/relactation in such an emergency, and ways to implement the > plan in a disaster allowing as many well fed babies in a scary situation as > possible. Any one have a model I could follow? Or ideas to put into it? > Sounds like this time I may actually be able to bring the point home. > > Renee Drake RN CLC *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html