kangaroos with bottles? come on.

[valkyrina]

email just sent to the company that makes the (really annoying) cd that MIL bought my boys:

Hello,

My mother-in-law bought your '150 Toddler Tunes' 3-cd set for my toddler twins yesterday. I think it's great, and the boys absolutely love the songs. I do, however, have some concerns about your packaging. On the cover of the CD jacket, there is a picture of a baby kangaroo in his mom's pouch, drinking from a bottle. This concerns me because the image of the baby kangaroo drinking from a bottle normalizes formula feeding in our culture. Doctors and experts everywhere agree that formula feeding is worse for babies than breastfeeding. The World Health Organization has put forth in their guidelines that the best way for babies to be nourished is to drink milk directly from their mother's breast. The health benefits of breastmilk have been proven over and over again, and include better language development, fewer ear infections, decreased risk of obesity later on in life, decreased risk of breast cancer for moms, as well as many others, and we are discovering new benefits every day. By offering a picture of a baby drinking from a bottle, you are helping people to see formula feeding as normal, appropriate, and 'just as good' as breastfeeding. This contributes to lower breastfeeding rates and therefore to worse health for children. If you are uncomfortable with putting an image of a nursing baby on the front of your cd, I would request that you find a different image to help sell your product.

Thank you for your time,




You mammas inspired me to try and educate these people!

[Breeder]

That is an awesome, well informed and respectful msg to send to that company. Great job mama!

[Dabble]

That reminds me of another post recently about a Fur-Real friend DUCK that comes with a baby bottle. At least a baby kangaroo is a mammal that drinks milk! A duck has a beak, how is he supposed to drink a bottle? And what is he drinking from it, liquefied grass and bugs?

How silly it all is!

[hipumpkins]

We have a book about kicka roo who doesn't want to leave his mom's pouch and grow up. One of the reasons is, he only likes, "mama roo's milk" not grass sandwiches

[valkyrina]

Originally Posted by hipumpkins

We have a book about kicka roo who doesn't want to leave his mom's pouch and grow up. One of the reasons is, he only likes, "mama roo's milk" not grass sandwiches

Soooo cute! Thanks for the replies, mammas! I hope that if we all write emails and letters like this, companies will start making more stories like the one that hipumpkins has, and fewer pictures like mine.

[frontierpsych]

Originally Posted by Chimpmandee

That reminds me of another post recently about a Fur-Real friend DUCK that comes with a baby bottle. At least a baby kangaroo is a mammal that drinks milk! A duck has a beak, how is he supposed to drink a bottle? And what is he drinking from it, liquefied grass and bugs?

How silly it all is!

[Jannah6]

Good job, it's nice to see people taking an active position.

[*MamaJen*]

Nice letter. The whole baby roo with a bottle thing is especially ridiculous because kangaroos are poster animals for breastfeeding. It's actually really cool. The baby is born at the human equivalent of seven weeks gestation (that's right, seven weeks) and the lima bean sized blob of a baby crawls from its mama's uterus into her pouch. As soon as the baby gets there, it latches on to one of her four nipples and stays that way for the next three months, its mouth literally stuck to its mama's nipple. Sometimes she has multiple babies in her pouch and she makes different milk for each, depending on how old they are.
The mamas almost always have three babies going -- one in the uterus, one in the pouch and one on the ground.

[valkyrina]

Originally Posted by *MamaJen*

Nice letter. The whole baby roo with a bottle thing is especially ridiculous because kangaroos are poster animals for breastfeeding. It's actually really cool. The baby is born at the human equivalent of seven weeks gestation (that's right, seven weeks) and the lima bean sized blob of a baby crawls from its mama's uterus into her pouch. As soon as the baby gets there, it latches on to one of her four nipples and stays that way for the next three months, its mouth literally stuck to its mama's nipple. Sometimes she has multiple babies in her pouch and she makes different milk for each, depending on how old they are.
The mamas almost always have three babies going -- one in the uterus, one in the pouch and one on the ground.

This is probably the coolest thing I have ever heard of in my entire life.