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[ID] 225 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Health Care Provider Lactation Professional Public Health Worker [Comment] In a sense by providing free formula in the WIC program we are endorsing and promoting artificial milk for human babies. We are communicating that formula is important enough that the government wants to give it to you for your baby's benefit and that therefore it must be as good as or better then human milk (as my own mother believed in the early 50's. Apparently we let the marketplace decide what was best and re-educate a whole culture. How will we ever reverse this, if even among the most educated people will nurse as a lifestyle choice, not because their baby's survival depends on it. We started giving free formula in WIC, we better start rewarding every women who BF exclusively with more then an extra jar of peanut butter and charging women a discounted price for the formula so that they consider at least their pocketbooks. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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