After so much discussion about using full names of products, etc. here we
are using the N word so freely. The N word, I will spell it out only once
Nestle - that's it. Israel recently has been invaded as well. A few months
ago we were bombarded with TV commercials of products by N. Then, blow of
all blows Cheerios, our beloved Cheerios, now has big blue letters over it's
name saying N_____'s . This is a blow from which I have not yet recovered.
The other international brands we all see are L'Oreal and Lancome - are we
strong enough to give up L' gift with purchase? This is a dilemma for me, I
have managed with all the rest but don't know if I, the makeup queen, can
give this up on my next trip the US. In my humor there is a lot of seriousness.

In thinking about what to do at Disneyland, if there will be a "latch -in"
of BFing infants it should be done very carfeully so it won't be something
seen as these crazy La Leche people. It could backfire. You could maybe
scatter hundreds of women all over the park and have them hold the babies
and perhaps put a sign on the baby's back "is this baby breastfeeding or
cuddling?" Also if think if Michael Eisner or his number two man were to get
thousands of letters and a demand for a public statement and report this to
sympathetic reporter who will publicize it, then maybe you could get
noticed. Remember the CODE is not law in the US and most other places and no
way will it ever be such in the US so you can't yell illegal.

It seems like all of us had the light bulb turned on by Diane W's article
and notes, may of us might have been doing it for a long time and this
validates our mutual mental pathways. The idea of making people know just
how harmful ABM's (if you can call them that) are should be our approach.
Also, there are reasons to give ABMs, they do exist for the times that they
are needed. I always ask - if you much give one of these then why not let
the mother know which one is least harmful? Turns out that these least
harmful formulas cost five times as much as your basic ABM. This really gets
to me. If you don't have money you make a bad situation worse.

After all of our venting I think that we could think of an approach that
cannot be refuted so easily and cannot make us seem like lunatics, which is
why we are not taken seriously in most places. Again, the way in which you
put it over is probably the most important.

Perhaps one of the Australian Lactnuts could write in about who happened
there with the AMB companies signing a pact in one of the states (what do
you call your different areas?) and how it has progressed.

Our problems really are universal and with such a wide variety of Lactnet
(almost wrote Lactnerd) subscribers we are bound to come up with some good
ideas.

Evi Adams,IBCLC in springlike Tel-Aviv, my daughter went down to our old
hometown of Eilat for the holidays and it is around 100 F in the shade.