Here is the quote Ann was hunting for. It is from a UNICEF publication.
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> From: Patrica Young <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Lactation Information and Discussion
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> Subject: Re: statement "dream product"
> Date: May 05, 2000 09:59 PM
>
> This was sort of driving me crazy- Found it! Think it would be a very
> intriguing way to start a class for teens. From a pamphlet called "Take
> the Baby-Friendly Initiative! A global effort with hospitals, health
> services and parents to breastfeed babies for the best start in life. By
> UNICEF. Undated as best I can tell.
>
> "Imagine that the world had invented a new 'dream product' to feed an
> immunize everyone born on Earth. Imagine also that it was available
> everywhere, required no storage or delivery-and helped mothers to plan
> their families and reduce the risk of cancer:
> Then imagine that the world refused to use it.
>
> Towards the end of this century of unprecedented discovery and invention,
> even as scientists discover the origins of life itself, this scenario is
> not, alas, a fiction. The 'dream product' is human breastmilk, available
> to us all at birth, and yet we are not using it.
>
> Quite simply but quite certainly, breastfeeding is now an endangered
> practice around the world, in both rich and poor countries:
> * There is a universal increase in feeding babies with infant formulas
> instead of breastmik and a decline in breastfeeding, especially exclusive
> breastfeeding.
> * Too many hospitals, the sources and symbols of modern medical practice,
> hinder breastfeeding through practices such as separating the newborn
baby
> from the mother immediately after birth.
> * Every year over 1 million infants die, and millions of others are
> impaired, because they are not adequately breastfed.
>
> In all parts of the world babies are being born into unfriendly
> environments, victims of widespread poverty, rapid urbanization and
> relentless marketing of breastmilk substitutes.
>
> This is happening despite overwhelming scientific evidence that human
> breastmilk is vastly superior to anything available from our most
> sophisticated technologies. Science is rediscovering what our
> great-granparents already knew: that breastfeeding is Nature's perfect
> 'room service' for newborns, no matter where they are born.
>
> Yet this knowledge, both ancient and modern, is not being widely
practised
> by the world's healthcare institutions. Ironically, the nearer a mother
is
> to most modern hospitals the greater the pressures are to stop
> breastfeeding.
>
> Of the world's 4,237 species of mammals, Homo sapiens is the only one
> threatening Nature's proven method of caring for its newborns. It is
> clearly time to re-establish the common sense of breastfeeding as common
> practice.
>
> With support from world leaders, health experts and non governmental
> organizations (NGOs), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the
> World Health Organization (WHO) have now launched the baby-friendly
> initiative to convince hospitals, health services and parents that
> breastfeeding gives babies the best possible start in life.
>
> 16 more pages. Sincerely, Pat in SNJ
>
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> Of the qworld's
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