Tag Archives: infant formula

FAST FACTS: Miracle Milk™

By Danielle and Bettina

In the context of thousands of years of human existence, human milk is ordinary like just like blood or eyes are ordinary. It is only when human milk is absent, however, that it dawns on us just how truly extra-ordinary human milk is. … Continue reading →

Posted in Fundraiser for BfB, Main Content, Science News | Tagged american academy of pediatrics, Breast Milk, breastfeeding, CARE-WHO, donor milk, Human milk, Human Milk Banking Association of North America, infant formula, International Code of the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, Limerick Inc., Miracle Milk, Miracle Milk Mother's Day Stroll, Motherlove, NEC, NEC Society, necrotizing enterocolitis, neonatal intensive care unit, NICU, preemies, premature babies, premature birth, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), united states lactation consultants association, very low birth weight, VLBW | 3 Comments
Last revised on 05/06/2014

What is the WHO-CODE?

By Bettina Forbes, CLC

The primary purpose of the “WHO-CODE” is to protect mothers and babies from the highly effective, aggressive and predatory marketing of substitutes for breastfeeding (i.e. infant formula, bottles, artificial nipples) at the most vulnerable period of their lives, the birth … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Main Content | Tagged bottles, breastfeeding, breastmilk, breastmilk substitutes, Disney, formula coupons, formula giveaways, infant formula, marketing, Marsha Walker, Olan Mills, phdinparenting.com, Unicef, WHO Code, WIC program, World Health Organization | 31 Comments
Last revised on 11/08/2011

An Open Letter to Rufus Griscom, CEO of Babble.com: Why is the Similac Booby Trap Back?

By Bettina Forbes, CLC

Do you remember Phdinparenting’s fantastic post, “Similac and Babble.com Team Up to Dupe Breastfeeding Moms“? In the aftermath of outraged reader comments, letters to Babble.com, a flurry of Twitter activity and a frenzy of posts on various Facebook pages (including ours), Babble.com quietly removed the formula … Continue reading →

Posted in Booby Traps | Tagged Aggressive Formula Marketing, Alisa Volkman, Babble.com, Booby Traps, feeding, infant formula, Myths and Misinformation about Breastfeeding, phdinparenting.com, Rufus Griscom, Similac | 10 Comments
Last revised on 11/01/2010

Weekly Wrap-Up 9/26: Similac Recall, Formula Facts, Nursing Bra Art, Fab Spa Night & Benefit!

By Elita Kalma

By Elita of Blacktating.com for the Best for Babes Foundation ©2010 This week nothing had more people buzzing than the recall of over 5 million cans of Similac infant formula after it was discovered that beetles may have gotten into … Continue reading →

Posted in Main Content | Tagged Aggressive Formula Marketing, Deva Spa, Events, Fit Pregnancy, Fundraiser for BfB, infant formula, Peer Support, Risks of Not Breastfeeding, Similac, Weekly Wrap | 3 Comments
Last revised on 09/27/2010