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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just being nosy and wondering what everyone else, and other ob practices put in, their goody bags after officially learning you're expecting. My old practice gave out a really nice tote bag with a ton of free samples, coupons, brochures, etc. I have since switched practices for my 3rd pregnancy and only got a small plastic bag with some flyers and hardly any samples. Oh well.

What was in yours?[/quote]
Which practice is giving you advertisements? [/quote]

Right?  The companies have you thinking that advertisements are "goodies"?  My practice did none of this; they gave me some damples of prenatal vitamins at the beginning, but were really frank that OTC were just fine.  [/quote]

Exactly. Talk about the business of being born. That's it.[/quote]

Wait why is this bad? If other women are like me you spend approximately a bajillion dollars purchasing 10 brands of the same thing until you find one that works for your baby. My practice always has lots of samples, including baby formula. Again, how exactly is this an example of “bad capitalism”?? [/quote]

I would perhaps ask the question differently— why does a particular company think they should give you samples and in whose interest? And what do you think placing the samples in your healthcare providers office is supposed to communicate?

Again I think this is especially gross following the formula shortage. Pediatricians offices were being inundated with calls seeking samples— too bad the companies had sent them to the OBs offices instead, in an effort to create brand loyalty among mothers who might not even ever use formula at all. Corporate greed that leaves parents scrambling for formula while it goes bad in a nursing families hospital bag is basically the definition of “Bad Capitalism”[/quote]

You’re right, you should move to China! No one giving out samples there! [/quote]

You understand that calling out instances of corporate greed that disadvantages the vulnerable is an extremely American thing to do? Did you read “The Jungle” as a child? [/quote]

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