I'm with Valerie on this issue in that I feel this lawsuit is very important
to the future of the relationship between health care and formula companies.
This lawsuit is one that I have felt was eventual because hospitals are
promoting (in the form of "gift" packs) to their customers a product with
risks (not only the risks inherent with feeding formula but also the risk of
the powder form) and not informing families of those risks.   I feel formula
companies are not making any effort to inform anyone of the risk of this
particular form of their product either so they should be included in the
lawsuit.    I wonder too how much information the parents had been given by
the hospital when the child was born about the risks of not providing
breastmilk/breastfeeding this child.  If they provided inadequate
information, the liability for the hospital increases.
If the family loses I feel it will serve to support the current practice of
not informing families of risk and to the current cozy relationship between
health care and formula companies.

I had envisioned the first(?) lawsuit to be more on the lines of "child,
with uninformed parents, is fed (free) formula in the hospital and later
develops diabetes so parents sue".


Sally Myer RN, ICCE
McCook NE

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