Haven't seen that one, but the October issue of Parent's magazine, in an article
on caring for a newborn, tells us that we can "ask any Dad" and be reassured that
bottle-feeding is a good as breastfeeding.  I nearly laughed out loud, since for
obvious reasons, the fathers don't have a method for comparing the two
experiences!  Space-wise, the bottle article is larger than the nursing article...
and the one on breastfeeding has a completely fake image that implies a woman is
breastfeeding but by the angle of the baby's head, one can surmise that baby isn't
nursing unless mom's nipples are in her armpits...

And has anyone noticed that in the front ad pages of parenting magazines lately,
Merck is running ads that start out "sadly" or "tragically" and go on to give the
stats for chicken pox deaths and hospitaliztions...  do you think they would run
the same type ad featuring stats on formula deaths and hospitalizations?

Debbie McCallister
Louisville, Kentucky

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> Date:    Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:57:00 -0700
> From:    Monique Schaefers <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: parenting magazine at it again
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> Does anyone have the e-mail address for Parenting magazine? On page 223
> of the October issue there's a short article on "No-Fault Formula".  It
> talks about gassiness and mentions about asking your pediatrician about
> thickening your baby's formula with rice cereal to "help it stay down",
> rather than being spit up. It says that you can give it through the
> bottle by enlarging the hole in the nipple. Isn't this terribly outdated
> information?  I *know* that the AAP doesn't even recommend solids till 6
> months, and that rice cereal won't even be digested. I hate to read this
> stuff in magazines.
> --
> Monique
> Noah Schaefers 6/97
> [log in to unmask]

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