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Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 12:03 AM
Subject: Formula Reps & stuff LACTNET Digest - 26 Apr 1998


Hi all> Just returned from a local area perinatal conference. As the
representative from our local ilca affiliate, I saw the R*** and W**** reps.
The w***** Rep started to set up next to my booth. I was upset but said
nothing. He moved once he saw that I was a breastfeeding-rep. He only broght
literatured on birth control pills. Well I told him that he and W***M****
had no business in putting formula on the shelves to confuse parents.
What was Worse was that the R*** rep had breastfeeding stuff. ONly a few of
the things that had to do with pregnancy, a dilitaiton chart and a gestation
wheel. well the worst was the roll mints that they passed out. A five roll
pack of mints in a silver wrapper, with a whit labels printed like S******
formula. Yes I broght some home to complain about. and use for examples of
viuolation of the Code.  By the  way they took info from all over theplace.
Yes i told both reps they were in violation, there were rare places and
times that their stuff was needed.but they cannot duplicate nature.

And those men with breast envy, when in kindergarden of first grad did they
not learn to share? my kids and husband shared without a problem. Steve
loved to bathe and hold.  Even did kangaroo care, until the day my daughter
latched on to his small and flat nipple. No more breast envy. He just liked
the fact it was free. With our large brood, everything gets expensive.

Mechell Turner, M.Ed. IBCLC
Where in peachland winter rains have returned.