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Re: Breast Feeding From: Meenan, Anna (annam@uic.edu) Tue Aug 7 21:45:21 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Waterbirth Stories" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: Vaginal Birth after uterine perforation?" In reply to: Henry Gregor: "Re: Breast Feeding" Next in thread: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Breast Feeding" I wish, but you know how that would go over in this country. I for one am glad that the WIC program did not exist in 1954. My mother breastfed me because she could not afford formula. I am eternally grateful for that. Anna Meenan, MD >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 > >>What are the best methods for ideal breast feeding in developing >>countries like INDIA? > >Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evtG093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222>Comedy >with an Edge to see what's on, when. Next message: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Waterbirth Stories" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: Vaginal Birth after uterine perforation?" In reply to: Henry Gregor: "Re: Breast Feeding" Next in thread: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Breast Feeding"

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