Topic: Bloomberg pushing NYC hospitals to hide baby formula ...

[Pandora]

... so more new moms will breast-feed.

Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation.

... Under Latch On NYC, new mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.

With each bottle a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to. Staffers will explain why she should offer the breast instead.

“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”

Lisa Paladino, of Staten Island University Hospital, said: “The key to getting more moms to breast-feed is making the formula less accessible. This way, the RN has to sign out the formula like any other medication. The nurse’s aide can’t just go grab another bottle.”

Some of the hospitals already operate under the formula lockdown.

Baby formula is an "other medication" now?!

Tick, tick ........

[IronDioPriest]

What is it with this guy? In many ways his transgressions into nanny-statism are more egregious than almost any other I can think of. He exemplifies the liberal assumption that people are not capable to manage their own existence - the antithesis of Americanism.

[LadyVirginia]

  she’ll also get a talking-to.
“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”

  Too bad this doesn't apply to abortion.

[warpmine]

Required license to pee coming soon.

[Libertas]

Rush thinks Bloomie has a thing for anything that comes into contact with the mouth...just a matter of time until they regulate the entire digestive tract...