Several weeks ago, Andrea answered Star's request for a reference for the
ranking of milks with this:

<This is from a publication called "Facts for Life."  I have the 1993
revised edition, and the statements you refer to are on page 23.

This document is available online at http://www.unicef.org/ffl/.  Go to
the breastfeeding section, then to statement 4 "Breastfeeding helps to
protect babies and young children against dangerous diseases.
Bottle-feeding can lead to serious illness and death."  Then go to the
4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th bulleted points under "supporting statements.">

I just got around to looking it up because we are wondering whether we
dare make up a small poster for our breastfeeding office within our WIC
clinic with the rankings.

The actual wording and supporting information on this site seem more
applicable to a developing country. We are looking for a concise,
strongly stated listing, pure and simple.

Does anyone know if anyone is actually selling such posters already? Or
where there might be an actual simplified listing to quote, more
appropriate for the US, including as #3: "Milk from a Human Milk Bank"
instead of "Milk from another mother".

One thing I DID LIKE!  It referred to "non-human milk". What would be a
good way to include this to make a "breastfeeding friendly term" (as
averse to a "pharmaceutical industry friendly term") for formula? Without
using the word "fake", of course.

Non-human Artificial Infant Milk? But then it's not the infant that's
artificial!

Artificial non-human infant milk? But then, we certainly don't want
"non-human" modifying "infant", do we?

Artificial non-human liquid nutrition? But then it's not liquid nutrition
for non-humans we're talking about, is it? But this would then include
the ones that are actually made from meat (Nutramigen) and soybeans,
which strictly speaking, despite popular soy industry usage, is not
really milk, is it? (but then we refer to "coconut milk", so that shoots
that out of the water)

Non-human Substitute Infant Nutrition? Nope! That acronym might inflame
others and defeat the cause by appearing judgemental (N-H SIN)

Artificial, non-human feeding mixture?

Non-human artificial feeding liquid?

Somewhere in there should be the germ of an idea for another name we
could introduce to refer to  "Human Milk Fortifier" because, despite what
appears to be a legitimate need for premies, this name itself is
deceptive enough that not only parents but many professionals naively
assume it is manufactured from human milk!

I know a lot of this was discussed several years ago on LN, but I don't
remember that "non-human" was one of the terms in the discussion.

Does anyone else agree that that would add a powerful differentiation to
the terminology, and can anyone think of a shorter way to get it in a
title with "artificial"?

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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