I faxed my letter to Secretary Thompson this morning. I then sent an email with the letter attached to Gina Ciagne in the Office of Women's Health. Ms. Ciagne (a mother of a breastfed child) conducted the media training in which I participated last summer, along with hundreds of others (including some on this list). She did a great job with the training and, as I wrote to Secretary Thompson, "Her enthusiasm and knowledge of this project were inspiring to most of us. I say "most of us" because someone mentioned the fact that there were likely to be representatives of the infant formula industry participating in the teleconference and they were likely to be developing a counter-campaign as we spoke. While that may have sounded slightly paranoid at the time, I now see that it was true." Within two minutes, Ms. Ciagne responded via e-mail, thanking me for writing the letter. She also wrote that, "The Department is very committed to the campaign and to breastfeeding. The campaign is still forthcoming though we want to make certain that the campaign is the best it can be prior to the launch." I hope that "the best it can be" means the campaign will be unchanged from its current message which promotes exclusive breastfeeding and presents breastfeeding as the biological norm. Sara Dodder Furr LLL Leader Lincoln, Nebraska USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html