Thank you Jon Arendson for sharing what happened at the Des Moines
conference re: the ABM rep and the stuff he/she/it was handing out.
Everyone should be aware that the marketing information they share in the
guise of research defines supplementation very interestingly.  It includes
ALL of what follows:

a) any bottle of breastmilk given baby in mother's absence
b) any bottle of ABM given baby in mother's absence
c) any time a bottle (or lmore than one bottle) is given
d) makes no distinction between ABM and breastmilk (if breastmilk is given,
doesn't this mean that mother is continuing to stimulate her breasts in
some way in order to have that milk?!)

Very POORLY DONE work and NEVER PUBLISHED anywhere to my knowledge. I have
seen the data because the rep (when I was at Univer. of Chicago) took pains
to show it to us there.

Do not be fooled by such information. Next time you are approached with
such info, ask hard questions OUT LOUD so others more gullible than you
will not be taken in by it.




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]