FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter TO:[log in to unmask] SUBJECT: They turned out fine... DATE: 02-11-97 16:45 EST PRIORITY: My "new " response to "I bottlefd (was bottlefd, etc) and I (they) am just fine" is "Good for you, you beat the odds" and depending on the reaction I get, may go on to quote the stats on incidence of infections etc. I presented today to our county board of sups, regarding a declaration for Valentines day/brfdg a gift of love, and got a pretty positive response, I thought. The chair commented that his mother saw the proclamation text the night before and essentially said "I drank while pregnant with you, and I didn't breastfeed you and you turned out fine", to which his joking response today was to the effect that it proved how imiportant it is to support brfdg. And that as a restauranteur, how his attitude has changed over the years to one of support for a woman who would brfd her infant in his restaurant, vs it being inappropriate 20 years ago.