Dear folks,
This is a huge disgrace to call breastfeeding a waste of time. I think this
magazine as well as the physician needs to be flooded with emails. Please
forward to your friends who will take two minutes and click on the links to
write a sentence or two.
Mary
Real Simple is real stupid about breastfeeding
The August 2003 issue of Real Simple magazine, currently on newsstands,
contains an article titled "20 Time Wasting Rules to Break Now." According
to the magazine, one of the time wasting rules to break is breastfeeding! A
quote from the article: "What happens if you don't breastfeed your child?
'In the long run, nothing,' says Boris Petrikovsky, chairman of the
department of obstetrics-gynecology at Nassau University Medical Center in
East Meadow, New York. When you're bottle feeding, you know exactly how much
food the baby is eating, and Mom may be less tired because dad has no excuse
to sleep through 3 a.m. feedings. 'There is also absolutely no conclusive
data on breast milk's effects on brain development,' adds Petrikovsky."
Interestingly, Dr. Petrikovsky has received a Mead Johnson Traveling
Fellowship (Mead Johnson makes Enfamil).
Here are several resources to help you respond to Real Simple:
<http://www.geocities.com/gremarly/realsimple.html>
www.geocities.com/gremarly/realsimple.html (sample letters to the editor,
the doctor's e-mail address, and contact info for the magazine's
advertisers)
<http://www.promom.org/3min/index.htm> www.promom.org/3min/index.htm (easy
to send, editable e-mail letter to Real Simple)
<http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/web/letter.html>
www.realsimple.com/realsimple/web/letter.html (direct link for sending
letters to the editor)
<http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/lactate/media.htm>
www.tdh.state.tx.us/lactate/media.htm (more general sample letters for
responding to representations of breastfeeding in the media)
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