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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative was created by the WHO and UNICEF. For Baby-Friendly USA, the chair of the board of directors is Theresa Landau who is also the Chairperson of the NYC Breastfeeding Leadership Council, Inc., the Co-Chair of the Bronx Breastfeeding Coalition and is on the Executive Committee of New York Statewide Breastfeeding Coalition.

According to Baby-Friendly USA, the "10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding" includes "7. Enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practice rooming-in 24 hours a day."

Like all lactivists they always frame the things they aggressively push as the woman's choice, when in practice the mother is either being guilted into it or not given a choice. When I toured Holy Cross Hospital before my child was born they proudly described how they strongly discourage new moms from sending their babies to the nursery.

Stop acting like this whole thing wasn't started by breastfeeding advocates. It's an obvious lie (typical of breastfeeding advocates).

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OK? And? Automatically giving newborns formula in the hospital nursery is product placement by formula and pharmaceutical companies and removes the agency of parents who don't want to use it. They're two sides of the same coin, neither rooted in "supporting women's choice".[/quote]

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