I had an interesting experience when I first opened my lactation center.  The
editor from the local paper came over to get an interview and do a story.  He
seemed quite intelligent and coherent at the time. Well, when the story came
out 3 weeks later, I was mortified.  Among many blunders, the worst was the
following, " Parlapiano said there are professional "wet nurses" whose
services are in demand by mothers who either can't or don't want to
breastfeed but realize the benefits of mother's milk."
Can you imagine ???????!  To this day, I still don not know where or how he
came up with that one...maybe in a dream !
Needless to say, my friends had a great time calling up asking for none of
those "wet nurses" !

In an attempt to salvage what I could, I wrote a letter to the editor which
was published and used some humor to correct the mistake by writing, "To
clarify,  we provide many services but nursing another woman's baby is not
one of them."

I will never again release permission for anything to be written until I have
approved a copy first.  Writing your own press releases are the safest way to
go.

Maria Parlapiano  RN, IBCLC