Thank you to everyone who has responded. My initial reaction was the 
same as most of yours: "Why Soy?"

But I am trying hard in my counseling to answer the first questions 
first, before i dump a lot of un-expected information in a non-client's lap!
The woman is working with a lactation consultant and called me because I 
run a shop where I sell breastpumps, SNS, etc...
She did not ask me for advice on which formula is best, or whether to 
use formula at all, but only where to find organic soy formula.
My hope is that in offering to find out for her, she will call me again, 
when less upset, and I will be able to find out more about the situation 
and pass on some other information.

When someone walks into my shop and asks for a nipple shield, the 
reaction of my heart is "NO! Don't go there! What's the problem, you 
poor woman, are your nipples so sore? Is your baby not latching? Let me 
show you how!" But If I do that, I'll scare her off. So I find her the 
nipple shield, I discuss what size she wants, I coo about the cute baby, 
I ask which midwife or doc or LC or BF Counselor she's working with, I 
express sympathy about her sore nipples and see where that leads me.

My new motto: Finish the first breast first and answer the first 
questions first.

Eva

Eva Bild, MA, CD (DONA)
Certified Doula, Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding Counsellor
Mothering Touch Centre
1562 Fort Street 
Victoria, BC
250-595-4905
www.motheringtouch.ca



Arly Helm wrote:
> It is important to be moving toward an organic food stream and away from the
> dioxins, etc., that plague our current food supply.
>
> However, simply ensuring something is organic doesn't make it better than it
> would otherwise be.
>
> After all, it is possible to buy organic cow manure, but one wouldn't want
> to eat it.
>
> Arly Helm, MS, IBCLC
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