As I am always telling my moms - "DO NOT ACCEPT SUBSTITUTES"!
rather then empowering mothers in their ability to provide their 
children, manufactures are making them feel inadequate and irrelevant - 
first with so called "supplements", then with "baby/toddler foods" and 
then - McDonalds and Instant Breakfasts.

Frequently I am getting babies at 2-3 months of age after being seen in 
the hospital's clinic and the vast majority of them are either already 
completely on artificial feedings, or with heavy supplementation. It 
does take a lot of work, but quite a few are managing to go back to 
exclusive breastfeeding in a month or so.

Another my slogan in this situation "JOIN THE RESISTANCE!!!"

Alla
Alla Gordina, MD, IBCLC, FAAP

On 4/19/2013 4:31 PM, Padamson5 wrote:
> The sales message is for their gmo'd versions of DHA & ARA &  the alleged inadequate quality & quantity in mom's milk. What mom has is normal but they are selling mistrust of what cannot be measured feed by feed. Because mom can't be trusted to eat right during pregnancy, they also sell prenatal DHA & ARA. It's not fact. It's marketing.
> Phyllis
>
> Allison Laverty Montag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The formula reps must have been through recently. Having multiple
>> reports
>> of mothers being told to add neosure (or alimentum) to expressed
>> breastmilk
>> for brain development. Latest report was 1/2 teaspoon to 4oz of EBM.
>>
>> I know fortifying is done for weight gain but brain development? I
>> would
>> love something to handout to moms to help counter this information.
>> Allison Laverty Montag BA, IBCLC, RLC
>> Wisconsin, USA
>> -- 
>> "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win,
>> by
>> fearing to attempt."
>> William Shakespeare
>> Measure for Measure
>>
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