This morning I went to my OB/GYN's office for my yearly exam. There in the lobby was a guy with a huge stack of Similac cases. He was trying to get the receptionist to take some boxes, but she kept telling him that they had enough already. So he waited a while, went over to another part of the counter, and talked some other poor staff person into taking FOUR CASES of the stuff! All the while, my DH, DD and I were sitting in the lobby, waiting to be called in, and I was just seething. It took every ounce of self-control to not go over to that guy and
the living daylights outta him. My DH suggested that I should sit right across from him and nurse our DD, but she had just tanked up before we left and wasn't interested in nursing.
Instead we stood in the lobby and talked LOUDLY about how healthy our breastfed baby was, and how we wished the office would display breastfeeding information as prominently as they display formula, but that they would never do it because it might endanger Nestle's huge profits. My DH shook his head and loudly exclaimed, "Nature makes the best formula." This is a man who was bottle-fed!!!
I intended to complain to my OB/GYN, but I never got to see her. The office was running so behind schedule (at 8:45 in the morning?) that we actually waited in the little room for almost an hour before we gave up, I got dressed and we left. Grrr!
I'm still really irate about this. I hate seeing the pharma company pushers in the doctor's offices, handing out free samples. I hate seeing all the drug-name branded stuff - the pens, clipboards, notepads. And seeing a formula pusher at work, in a lobby full of pregnant ladies, just sent me over the top. What can I do? How can I fight this?
I intended to complain to my OB/GYN, but I never got to see her. The office was running so behind schedule (at 8:45 in the morning?) that we actually waited in the little room for almost an hour before we gave up, I got dressed and we left. Grrr!
I'm still really irate about this. I hate seeing the pharma company pushers in the doctor's offices, handing out free samples. I hate seeing all the drug-name branded stuff - the pens, clipboards, notepads. And seeing a formula pusher at work, in a lobby full of pregnant ladies, just sent me over the top. What can I do? How can I fight this?