Linda, there is a big difference between using artificial substitute when necessary and using a PROMOTIONAL sample of formula.  The PROMOTIONAL samples of formula not only disrupt breastfeeding, they also cost those women who MUST use formula because they do not have adequate access to a sufficient amount of their own milk or do not have access to human donor milk.  This is completely unfair to the very women who NEED to use the formula.  The costs are extremely high.  Marsha Walker has written about the additional costs of promotional samples.  

Every formula feeding mother should object to the promotional samples because she pays for them to be dumped on mothers who don't need it.

Best, Susan E. Burger, MHS, PhD, IBCLC

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