In a message dated 5/19/2004 12:16:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
I might change my mind if I had any evidence *whatsoever* from health
promotion research that inducing or increasing guilt actually works as a public
health strategy.
Dear Friends:
    In the States, parents are made to feel bad if they don't use car seats,
or smoke during pregnancy, or don't immunize. The public education campaigns
about these issues are scary.........it seems to be effective. Recent estimates
are that New York City has 100,000 less smokers, partly from educational
campaigns and partly from very high taxes on tobacco.
    We aren't choosing a woman's feelings by telling her the truth about
infant feeding. Not breastfeeding increases the risk of postneonatal death, just
as not using a car seat or using tobacco in the home increases the risk of
infant death. People need to know this, and know it before the choice is made.
    No way to soften these facts.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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