On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:10:21 -0500, Kathleen Bruce <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

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>
>Encouraging all milk banks to keep going and to sense strength from those
in
>our profession supporting their good work,..  Rather than complain and
>villanize, shall we help them by investing our time, strength, talents, and
>energy behind them?
>
>Respectfully,
>
>
>                            Kathleen B. Bruce RN IBCLC



Well said, Kathleen!  I am always wary when an 'agenda' becomes more
important than individuals.  Babies' lives are saved by banked human milk.
Shut the milk banks down and all that will happen is the formula companies
will get human milk elsewhere and the babies who need donor milk will go
without.

I guess I just don't have an activist mind-set, but I don't feel entirely
comfortable with nurse-ins either.  They can cow businesses into
submission, but certainly don't create sympathy in the general public.

-Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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