As far as I am concerned, since it is the formula companies marketing that  
has put these babies at risk of death from disease and starvation in the first  
place, they should donate the entire need for their product and that should  
include all products in sterile bottles with sterile nipples for single  use.  
Anything less is contributing further to the problem they have  created.  
There is no way to clean the bottles, so ready to feed is not  even good enough 
unless it comes with a method to feed it safely!  And they  should either 
continue to do so for the entire recovery period or they should  cease marketing 
their product until the recovery has passed so the babies have a  better chance 
of being breastfed and living through what is going to be the  worse public 
health disaster in this country.
 
I am so saddened as I watch the news and see the babies being held up at  
only days old as a cry for formula! Lift your shirts mommies I want to scream at  
my television.  There was a story of a mom being sent out of the hospital  
with her two day old and a suitcase full of formula!!!!!  What on earth is  
wrong?  Isn't it common sense that babies being born at this time MUST be  
breastfed?  It is not about choice, it is about life or death.  I  don't get it.  I 
am so frustrated.
 
Yes, this should be the last time something like this happens.   Somehow the 
word must be gotten out that breastfeeding is the best choice and  how to do 
it in an emergency.  If the rest of the world can manage it,  surely USA can 
get with the program.
 
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC, RLC
FL, USA

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