And where did the Dept Dir get her facts on that? Possibly from the sales rep? So if those bags are the primary reason a woman chooses which hospital to give birth in, and if ALL the local hospitals have the same bag well....? I would hope she and the community from which they draw their patients thought so well of her hospital's services and medical care, that discharge bags were considered an "extra" and not the sole tipping point in making hospital choices.
Did that make sense?
Phyllis

---- Carolyn Bolton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
 
 In developing a reformatted
> breastfeeding policy the coordinator and co-chair of the committee of our
> Lactation Center put into the policy that breastfeeding mothers would not be
> given the formula gift bags routinely.  They would have to ask for them. 
> The department director went ballistic..how could we not give the gift bags!
>  Those mothers would compare with mothers from the other major competitor
> and decide our hospital wasn't as generous as the other hospital.   

--
Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ.
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