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If you are a regular reader of my blog or if you were following the Nestle Family controversy, you will know that Nestle claims that it doesn’t market formula in the developing world. Nestle claims to voluntarily abide by the code in all developing countries around the world.  More than a million babies die each [...]

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Sabotage

by phdinparenting on May 4, 2009

They want you to fail.
Their bottom line depends on it.
Have you ever heard of a wolf in sheep’s clothing? This is it.
Formula companies do not support breastfeeding. They want to sabotage you. They want to exploit any iota of doubt that you have, any moment of weakness to get you to try their product.
Breastfeeding Support [...]

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Mirena follows in Motrin’s footsteps

by phdinparenting on December 18, 2008

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps that is what Mirena is counting on here. But I’m not impressed.
When Motrin put out an inaccurate and insulting advertising about babywearing, telling moms that babywearing was painful but it was good pain and you should just take Motrin to deal with it, they used [...]

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Quelling crazed consumerism

by phdinparenting on November 28, 2008

I want that
I need that
I like that
I want it
I want that
I want this
That is what the chorus was starting to sound like at our house a few weeks ago. Our kids used to only watch Treehouse (advertising free educational kids television) and PBS Kids (in particular for Sesame Street). But then along came the Retro [...]

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