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[My4Boys]

Originally Posted by sunflowers

So now I have a question If you have formula coupons, do you send them to people who are already ffing? Or do you still toss them away (or send them to your legislators ) If the mom has already lost her milk and needs the formula, I would think you'd send them to her but am I missing something important?

If you send the coupons or formula to an already ff'ing mom, you are passing on the marketing costs and perpetuating the maketing machine along with the myth that formula is equal to breastmilk.

If you toss them away, you are making to impact or statement what-so-ever.

If you send them to your legislators with a well stated letter referencing reputable sources and educating them on the WHO Code, you may affect change where change is needed most - in the support structures that are failing women who attempt to breastfeed.

[intorainbowz]

After reading a recent thread... I'm sending them all to the gov with a letter and a copy of the code.

[mommyddeville]

Originally Posted by sunflowers

So now I have a question If you have formula coupons, do you send them to people who are already ffing? Or do you still toss them away (or send them to your legislators ) If the mom has already lost her milk and needs the formula, I would think you'd send them to her but am I missing something important?

I give formula coupons to other foster parents! I'm a foster mom, so while I had a foster baby under a year old, I was always looking for coupons. I'm adamantly pro-breastfeeding, but I used my share of formula coupons for foster kids.

[Momtwice]

Originally Posted by sunflowers

So now I have a question If you have formula coupons, do you send them to people who are already ffing? Or do you still toss them away (or send them to your legislators ) If the mom has already lost her milk and needs the formula, I would think you'd send them to her but am I missing something important?

You can read the MDC take on that here:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=496798

Basically, giving out any freebies goes against the rules of the WHO Code, which Mothering advocates.

If you give out samples, according to the WHO Code rules, you should then be prepared to give out an entire year's supply to that person.

If you give out coupons or samples, you are required to then give out a list of the risks to the milk supply and the baby's health of formula supplementation.

Formula companies are forbidden to have any contact with pregnant women and mothers of small children.
The already-formula-feeding mom may be a mom like me, who had misinformation about breastfeeding the first time, but needed correct information to get breastfeeding successfully established with my second child.

Individual moms may or may not agree with the WHO Code, but its rules are listed at the web sites of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the United States Centers for Disease Control.

There are only 9 countries in the world who have not made any part of the WHO Code legally required,
one being the USA.
(see "Putting Babies Before Business," by Rev. Simon Barrington-Ward, [bishop of Coventry, member of the House of Lords] Mothering May-June 1998, no. 88)



"WHO Code" is short for the World Health Organization Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes.

[lizanneh]

Originally Posted by intorainbowz

Yup. :

I've gone into Smiths and purchased Lansinoh milk bags and a people magazine and diet coke, and got the coupon. I talked to the manager and told him I want a coupon for nursing supplies and he said the coupons are controled by another company.

Last week in LA we purchased diapers and baby food and got the formula coupon.

OT sweetie, but read up on Aspartame. You might decide to give up the diet coke. I'm a reformed Diet Coke lover myself!