Mayor Bloomberg pushing NYC hospitals to hide baby formula so more new moms will breast-feed

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64. This about hospitals, doctors and nurses not being marketing agents

for the formula manufacturers, plain and simple. That's all! Mothers will still have access to formula. It's just that medical personnel will no longer be able to advertise for it via sample bags and various advertising gew-gaws.

And for pity's sake, the way some posters are writing, you'd think there were no stores where parents could buy formula. In most areas, there are many, many stores, open as many as 24 hours a day, where one can purchase formula! Need some, go out and get some, just like with every other consumer product on the planet!

The one and only reason formula manufacturers want hospitals to push these sample bags and prominently display these lanyards and other crap, is that it increases sales for them. There is absolutely no reason for them to do otherwise. Not only is that common sense, but studies have proven that this is so.

Women who want to breastfeed should be able to without interference from the formula manufacturers. Women who don't want to breastfeed should understand the health consequences of their choice for their babies and for themselves, and then buy their own damn formula and not expect the hospitals to supply endless "freebies" (which they will eventually pay for in higher formula costs).