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Re: Breast FeedingFrom: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net)Tue Aug 7 18:02:02 2007
The breast-feeding issue in third world countries is more complex than calling the formula companies the bad guys for pushing their product. I would rather see babies gaining weight through adequate formula supplementation than suffering from poor nutrition for nursing moms resulting in poor infant nutrition and underweight infants. We've all seen the videos of nursing mothers in third world countries who are so nutritionally depleted they have nothing to give their babies. So if you make it a "requirement" for all healthy mothers to breast feed, you better make sure that moms are being feed and food and water supplies are safe. It's a complex issue and I don't think one size fits all. Should we encourage and educate mothers to breast-feed? Of course! Should we make anyone feel guilty about not breast-feeding? Of course not! Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Henry Gregor Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: Breast Feeding Anna, for the US, would you advocate no Health Department formula or WIC stamps good for formula unless a complication of breastfeeding has occurred and been medically documented, and decreeased private insurance medical care payments for those who elect to bottle feed? Seems to me we do lip service for breastfdg and provide incentives, rathet than disincentives, to bottle feed, and require no personal responsibility for choosing not to breastfeed. "Meenan, Anna" <annam@uic.edu> wrote: Kick all the Nestle, Mead Johnson and Ross representatives out of your country. Make sure all new moms have intensive support from someone who has successfully breastfed at least one child. Not knowing enough about how things go in your labor/delivery/postpartum units or what cultural norms and practices are, it's difficult to say more than that at the moment. You could consider doing what they did in Papua New Guinea and make formula a prescription-only item. Anna Meenan, MD
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