Posted on 07/29/2012 3:10:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bloomberg’s pro-breast-feeding initiative to lock away baby formula at 27 hospitals
By MARY KAY LINGE
Last Updated: 5:52 AM, July 29, 2012
Posted: 11:19 PM, July 28, 2012
The nanny state is going after moms.
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed.
Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation.
Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives.
While breast-feeding activists applaud the move, bottle-feeding moms are bristling at the latest lactation lecture.
“If they put pressure on me, I would get annoyed,” said Lynn Sidnam, a Staten Island mother of two formula-fed girls, ages 4 months and 9 years. “It’s for me to choose.”
Under Latch On NYC, new mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.
With each bottle a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to. Staffers will explain why she should offer the breast instead.
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Another activist nut job has been heard from.
As Sub-Driver so accurately states, this is a War on Women … specifically, a war on women's right to choose whether or not to breast-feed.
A 'voluntary' approach to making it mandatory to breast-feed? Only in Facistville.
Leonard Bernstein wrote (what should be) the New York-appropriate response to Mayor Bloomberg's latest insanity:
"Gee, Officer Krupke … KRUP YOU!"
First guns, smoking, cooking oil (fast food), salt, soft drinks, baby formula
Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile or more.
Taking her off the chips fixed the problem.
Billionaires get to do what they want to so many they just forget that others think they are all A^^holes
It has attracted more than its fair share of commies and nut cases, and they don't care one way or the other about infant health ~ for most of them the only good baby is a dead one anyway.
But what Bloomberg is into is driving down Nestle stock so he can buy some at a bargain price.
The man is scum.
>>The whole UN breast feeding scam is simply an attack on Nestle, one of the world’s largest producers of infant formula.<<
Ya know! I wouldn’t doubt it.
I remember when my sister had her kids around 30 years ago and Nestle was demonized for sending formula to third world countries. The La Leche league screamed “What good will this do without clean water!?!” so they started sending water too. It was never good enough.
Breast milk is only as good as the food the mother gets.
Thanks for your reply, Marie. You did the right thing. It’s ridiculous to be “pc” over formula vs breastfeeding. Mothers need to be left alone in their decision-making. Not have some pansy mayor tell them what to do!
I wonder what the idiot mayor of my city would think of my Sicilian relatives who mix olive oil into their babies’ formulas!
I wonder what the idiot mayor of my city would think of my Sicilian relatives who mix olive oil into their babies’ formulas!
Maybe next he’ll lock up the Tampax.
I wonder if Bloomberg’s ex-wife ever slipped a bottle to his children?
I bet he hasn’t a clue.
LOL. . .if only. . .As it is; we know this fantasy is not far off their mark; by any equally noxious ideas of 'wish fulfillment' and possibility thinking.
These people are a degradation to behold. They should be loathed. (No, Obama is NOT a 'nice guy'! Matters not a damn; that he can smile the smile.) The engagement of absolute willful ignorance - aka evil - by the Left; must be resisted and overcome.
Can only sleep, by imagining Victory. Of course; this would be easier; if more; knew the enemy/enemies, at hand; including a majority of our Congress. . .
WE know, first and foremost; that the Government cares not at all; about our health! To imagine this; is a case of 'mistaken identity' per the Government's real issues - which would be; controlling your life . (No different than Obamacare.)
To normal people; this seemed a ridiculous contrariety. Now the writing on the wall, is far more clear; and more are recognizing an ugly truth of these Democrats-now-radical Left. Or just those 'Left'. . .
Meantime; many; the 'longer-fed'; educated'; by a zombie 'nanny Gov'; cannot even read the messaging; and those few, who can decipher sufficiently; care not.
(As well; there are those 'care-nots'; who hold themselves in esteem; because they imagine a noble Democrat Party; the Party their parents were loyal to; and thus; so are they. END of their story and rationalization.)
Not a 'willful ignorance' but an unfortunate ignorance; in any event.
I sincerely hope this is actually the Health Department’s initiative, and not Bloomberg’s. Otherwise, Laz is right: Michael Bloomberg is as crazy as a sh!thouse rat!
Nanny State PING!
Just wow at the ignorance of so many posting on this thread.
Bloomberg, amazingly enough, opposes a ban on Chick Fil-A in NYC.
Thanks for the ping!
All your breastsessses belong to us!
One very well known expert does not a poison make.
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