Unfortunately, their ability to do so is being
undermined by formula companies, and by the lack of support and leadership from government in protecting them via legislation.
Not exact matches
* More than 100 groups ask 2,600 hospitals to stop samples * Advocates say free samples
undermine breastfeeding * Industry says giveaways offer information
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters)- New parents leaving U.S. hospitals often take home a corporate gift along with their babies: a tote bag filled with infant
formula.
The Infant
Formula and Follow - on
Formula (England) Regulations 2007 are designed to ensure that all types of infant
formulae meet the nutritional needs of babies, while ensuring that breastfeeding is not
undermined by the advertising, marketing and promotion of such products.
They mislead parents and health workers to
undermine breastfeeding, inflate prices of infant
formula and push products such as follow - on milks and growing - up milks that are described as unnecessary
by the World Health Organisation and the NHS.»
If long - term nursing is your goal, then using
formula may
undermine that, both
by decreasing your supply and
by decreasing your baby's desire to breastfeed.
The Code, which is designed to protect infant health, expressly forbids the advertising of
formula products and clearly states that information about infant nutrition should not come from the very industry that stands to gain the most
by undermining breastfeeding.
Everyone seems so obsessed about not making mothers feeling guilty about
formula feeding as opposed to those who want to breastfeed but are
undermined by free
formula.
Several factors contribute to the
undermining of breastfeeding: lack of understanding and education, including that of some doctors and hospitals; employment policies that don't support and encourage breastfeeding mothers; lack of general social support and education; and aggressive marketing campaigns waged
by the multibillion dollar
formula industry.
If companies abided
by the rules and scrapped these promotional budgets, breastfeeding would not be
undermined and
formula could be cheaper for those parents who use it.»
In addition to advertising, the main way that companies
undermine breastfeeding is
by influencing health workers — pediatricians, neo-natologysts, family doctors, midwives through training, dinners and sponsorship — including fully paid trips abroad and donations to Maternity Hospitals who order
formula.
This is something Baby Milk Action would normally welcome and we would expect a strong line to be taken on baby food companies contributing to unnecessary death and suffering
by undermining breastfeeding and misleading parents who use
formula.
As a quick summary, the WHO Code seeks to stem the outrageous marketing techniques used
by infant
formula manufacturers and related companies to
undermine breastfeeding globally, despite such companies» clear knowledge of the WHO Code.
The manufacturer uses the need for vitamin D to
undermine a new mother's confidence in her breastmilk
by promoting the nutritional «inadequacy» of breastmilk and the completeness of infant
formulas in parenting magazines and other marketing devises.
The International Code, which is designed to protect infant health, expressly forbids the advertising of
formula products and clearly states that information about infant nutrition should not come from the very industry that stands to gain the most
by undermining breastfeeding.
Confidence in a mother «s ability to feed her baby with only her milk needs to be supported, not
undermined by free
formula and coupons given
by the hospital.
i can come from this as an RN as well, and introducing
formula can
undermine an early breastfeeding relationship, especially when the mother is in the hospital constantly being pushed to use it
by every single nurse who has not taken a class at all on the biological working of the human breast.
It also
undermines women's confidence in their bodies» competence to breastfeed
by promoting special «
formulas» for pregnant and nursing mothers.
I was catching up on my desperately neglected Google Reader and came across a post
by Dagmar Bleasdale in which she discussed the Similac (a
formula company) Application which is said to help with breastfeeding — which I agree is
undermining and misleading.
Even a subversive speech from Rocket about how unlikely our heroes» union is becomes
undermined by the comic book
formula that follows.