>Yes, Boston Medical Center is pulling the Newborn CHannel immediately. We
>called them and informed them of this  - it takes a day or two to become
>effective because we need to be officially 'switched off' at their end.

Hooray!!!!

>We were informed that the Newborn Channel is attempting to create 'Baby
>Friendly' programming to offer to Baby Friendly hospitals, which will not
>contain the ads.

Imagine the back-pedaling and side-stepping they'll have to do when, over
and over again, they have to explain that not *all* of their programming is
"Friendly to Babies", only one version of it is.  They're acknowledging a
whole lot of stuff in coming up with 2 versions of programming.  Let's let
them do it!

--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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