Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to LactNet to make sure you are all fully aware of recent
developments concerning the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign.

As you may be aware, this Campaign is due to launch shortly. If you are not
aware of this Campaign, please refer to the upcoming piece of background
information.

After reading this email, you may want to consider writing a letter to
express your support for the National Campaign in its current form. We are posting
four documents to supply you with information that is available and that we
have been asked to disseminate as widely as possible.

1. Background info NBAC background
2. An email from Dr. Larry Gartner, Head of the Section on Breastfeeding at
the AAP
3. Letter from the AAP President to DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson
4. Letter from AAP Section on Breastfeeding to Secretary Tommy Thompson

If after reading these articles, you find these developments concerning and
wish to voice your opinion please:
Write a letter to Tommy Thompson and mail to
Honorable Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary
Department of Health & Human Services
200 Independence Avenue. SW
Washington. DC 20201

Please friends - don't email us directly because we are handling a vast
amount of correspondence around this - but please consdier writing to Tommy
Thomson. At this point we do not have an email address that we know is reliable for
Mr. Thomson. So please put your thoughts onto paper and send them.

Yours sincerely,

Barbara L. Philipp, MD
Anne Merewood IBCLC

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