IBCLCs need to read the letter in ILCA's website dated March 16, 2009.  On 
page 7 there is a question regarding selling Medela products. The letter 
instructs the IBCLC not to display Medela products.  They can be stocked 
but "available for sale on request".  Otherwise the IBCLC becomes complicit by 
association.  I am part of the "chain" that perpetuates the marketing of this 
CODE violator’s products when I show the PIS to breastfeeding moms 
returning to work.  

Medela has been deemed the evil CODE violator.  The Medela ad in American 
Baby says 100% Breastmilk.  Look at the second page of Medela 
advertisement shown in the ILCA letter; "The complete system for collecting 
and feeding breastmilk".  The ad states repeatedly, this system is for 
BREASTMILK!  

So, clearly the CODE intends for those who abide by the CODE to disassociate 
themselves from bottles and artificial nipples since these are devices of 
formula feeding.  Breastmilk from the Breast, period!  Woman should be home 
breastfeeding their babies. Then they wouldn’t need to look for a safe 
breastmilk storage system.

What I teach my Marines and Naval personnel in the Working Moms Pumping 
class keeps them providing breastmilk for their babies.  The class has included 
showing the Medela and the Ameda pumps.  They are taught to introduce 
bottle feeding but not before three weeks of life.  The day care centers are 
not going to do alternative methods of feeding.  The Injoy video I show 
features the Medela PIS, guess that useful tool needs to go too since it 
suggest using a CODE violator’s pump.  Pity because it also shows modern 
woman combining work and breastfeeding.

The US Constitution has been amended.  Maybe the CODE needs to move into 
the 21st Century.  

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