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.
“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”
I read this story on FoxNews today and just about threw a fist through my computer!
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.
“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”
I read this story on FoxNews today and just about threw a fist through my computer!
Is nursing best? Absolutely.
Is it every woman's choice to not nurse, and then NOT get a 'talking to' because of it? ABSOLUTELY!
WOW!
I am SO completely blown away by the fact that anyone thinks that they even remotely have the right to even think this let alone actually implement it. Morons...this Country is going the way of the Moron!
The End....
MORONS!
