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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When I was pregnant, I couldn’t stand the taste or smell of coffee. For 9 months, I didn’t drink a drop, but after I gave birth, I drank so much coffee I think I fed my babies cafe-au-lait. They never slept.
One very well known expert? Well, I guess that settles THAT question.
Fer crissakes, do you have any idea how many "well known experts" have labeled many, many substances toxic over the last 50 years? Only to be reversed later by other "well known experts".
"It's bad", "No, it's good", "No, it's REALLY bad", "Our bad".
The first taste of Obamacare.....
ping.
unbelievable.
“Justice
Social justice, distributive justice - who has access to breastfeeding, parenting support. . . .”
This comes from the study manual that I was given while attending my training for Lactation Counseling. I pursued this in order to broaden my skills and obtain Nursing continuing education credits.
This course cost me over $500 to attend and be certified by The Center for Breastfeeding, which was going to be a stepping stone for me to become a lactation consultant. I now know that this is a part of the global health program and is run by people with a socialist mentality.
Do NOT be surprised if it turns out that this becomes mandatory procedure in hospitals as part of “we must pass it to find out what’s in it” affordable care bull crap.
http://centerforbreastfeeding.org/index.cfm?show=clc
And business,bet he gets slapped around by them.
This guy is UTTERLY INSANE.
ha ha - actually it’s part of the so-called “Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative” globally pushed by WHO/UNICEF.
More than likely, we will soon find out that it is also part of our dear Obamacare.
This man is a menace.
The breast nazis at the hospitals are bad enough to deal with.
somehow my children managed to thrive despite the fact they fed upon “poison” several times a day.
He is not a lone wolf on this. It is part of an undercurrent force who finally has power over us. As one involved in a childbirth/lactation focused occupation, I have seen a strong left-wing agenda in action. I am currently ostracized for not towing the line, especially for voicing pro-life opinions, as strange as that seems.
If he insists upon breast feeding, then he has to allow the mothers to drink a Big Gulp to rehydrate. /s
When one falls into a cesspool, a long hot shower usually repairs the damage, but how does one clean crap out of their mind?
My husband as bottle-fed and is healthy as a horse. I was breast fed and I have autoimmune diseases and allergies like crazy.
I breast fed my daughter and loved it. With my son, things didn’t go well at all. He couldn’t even tolerate formula. We ended up having to feed him on a special ‘predigested’, hypoallergenic formula that cost 4x as much as the regular stuff. His entire intestinal tract was swollen and bleeding and he had malabsorption syndrome.
BOTH of my kids have allergies and my son is a T-1 diabetic.
I don’t think it had a damn thing to do with their formula. I would’ve love to have breast fed my son, but he’d have been dead if I’d have pushed it.
Pressuring new moms is NOT a good thing. New moms are already stressed and the last thing they need is to be lectured every few hours about how they’re already screwing up.
You have confirmed what was, until now, a gut instinct of mine.
I have had 8 children.
With my last child, I finally “had it” and told my OB/GYN that the lactation specialist was not welcome in my room.
The only reason it has fructose is government regulations keep the price of real sugar artificially high.
And there are always exceptions - children with medical issues, Rh incompatibility, milk that doesn't come in or let down, etc. etc.
But as a general rule breast feeding is best. I imagine that your breast-feeding-fanatic friends have other issues as well (and I bet one of them is vegetarianism, which isn't good for young children). We were natural childbirth/breast fed babies, a little unusual for our generation (early 50s), and so are all our babies. We are all very sturdy and healthy as can be. A lot of that is genetics, of course -- we are descended from those tough Scotch-Irish farmers who settled the Shenandoah Valley and the Appalachians, with a good admixture of no-nonsense Irish.
Assemblyjerk Quinn wants to BAN them outright.
The logical Left: you can't talk to a woman before she has her baby murdered but you can lecture her about what she should feed it every time she tries.
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