Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?

Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?

Posted by MommaBear

Posted by SweetTooth

Posted by MrsG102

What hospitals should do is making mandatory for nurses to ask new mothers whether or not they're going to breastfeed their baby. A lot of hospitals don't ask and just give the baby formula.

This is EXACTLY what this initiative is for!! It has nothing to do with forcing breastfeeding on anyone. If a mom wants to formula feed, she will get formula.
If she says she wants to breastfeed then they won't "just give the baby formula" as you stated above when this new initiative is in place.

For some reason no one is understanding this.

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Bloomberg. He is just encouraging hospitals to participate. This is an initiative of the World Health Organization.

It is a VOLUNTARY program for hospitals to participate in, not a law. The hospitals that decide to participate will have to keep count of the formula they use so that it is documented that breastfed babies are not fed formula in the nursery at night if the mom doesn't want that. (This happens A LOT)

Moms who want to formula feed will GET FORMULA for their babies! They just have to ask. No one is hiding formula.

Moms who breastfeed won't have formula pushed on them. They will receive support for their decision to breastfeed.

And the ONLY thing you had to do to learn this was go directly to the initiative's website instead of relying on a NY Post article

Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?

Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?

Posted by Ophelia

Posted by SweetTooth


Are people interpreting "limiting access" as "locked up?"

dude the ONLY thing I have taken away from this thread is that NO ONE CARES about what the initiative actually says.


this whole conversation is just dumb. DUMB.

Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?

Message edited 8/2/2012 2:58:13 PM.

Re: Not sure if it's been posted already...did you hear about Bloomberg's latest initiative?