got a formula sample today
Tue, 2007-07-17 14:31
Well, I am just 13 weeks pregnant, and at my first prenatal appointment today, I was given a formula sample. not only that, but I got "coupons" for my formula sample and bag in the hospital. Why do I need a coupon??? They'll give it to me, anyway! In the packet I got today, there was nothing on the benefits of breastfeeding at all. Not at all. The only thing that mentioned breastfeeding was a part that said, "If you plan to breastfeed, as for the breastfeeding bag, and ask for the formula bag if you plan to use formula." Guess what's in both bags???? A sample can of Enfamil Lipil formula!
There is a mail-in card that I'm tempted to send in, with "breastfeed only" marked as my feeding choice, just to see how aggressively they market to women who claim to have made their minds up completely.
Tue, 2007-07-24 21:36
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got a formula sample today
mom2my2pumpkins wrote:
You could have refused the sample...why didn't you, if it offends you so deeply? Just to make a point, it would appear.
It doesn't surprise me, based on your seeming enjoyment of deciding my motives and thoughts as if you can read my mind, that you had to add this last comment. You continue to make these judgments about my own thoughts and have apparently refused to answer any of my direct questions or find evidence that I have been anything but factual and to the point (meaning that you have not taken on my challenge to find quotes of mine showing me being a "bully" or "intolerant" or anything of the like).
I did not refuse the sample because I wanted to see what info it had on breastfeeding - none. I thought that formula ads were all supposed to say, "Breast is best" or in some way give a little acknowledgment in their materials? And they didn't, and I received nothing else from the doctor in that visit saying anything about breastfeeding's benefits. Also, I figured I could take the sample to our local food pantry.
And what would it have mattered if I had refused the sample? Could I not still come here and post that I'd been offered a sample at 13 weeks gestation at my very first OB visit? I could still make that point regardless of whether I'd taken the sample with me or not. Also, my refusal would not have changed the fact that every other woman in that office will also receive a sample on her first visit. My refusal would not make all the other samples in the office disappear.
I did, however, make a comment to the nurse that they sure were giving these out early (and my husband said the same).
You could have refused the sample...why didn't you, if it offends you so deeply? Just to make a point, it would appear.