When Mom can't, or won't, breast-feed, firm has option
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Chicago Tribune
By Martin Patience
Columbia News Service
Published April 11, 2004

"NEW YORK -- The Web site for Certified Household Staffing appears like a throwback to Victorian times, when the moneyed classes hired teams of servants. The site sports images of butlers with bow ties, nannies in black and white uniforms and gamekeepers dressed in tweeds. But the agency offers another service associated with times long past: wet nurses. Robert Feinstock, 65, the owner of the Beverly Hills, Calif., company, believes his business is one of the few in the United States that offer wet nurses, or women who suckle other people's children. He says he provides a needed service to mothers who want their children to thrive on breast milk but for whatever reason are unable to perform the task themselves....
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NEWS.com.au | Drugs give women no relief (April 12, 2004)
By Sue Dunlevy
April 12, 2004
news.com.au
"PETHIDINE, one of the most widely used painkillers in childbirth, does little to reduce the pain of labour and may hinder early breastfeeding. A review of studies of the effectiveness of the drug has found it sedates women enduring the agony of childbirth, rather than relieving their pain. A Thai study in 2002 found only 23.8 per cent of women claimed pethidine provided effective pain relief in labour, according to an article in Australian Prescriber."

By JOAN LOWY
Scripps Howard News Service
April 08, 2004
"Maine is about to become the first state to ban a widely used flame retardant that has been found in the breast milk of American and European women and that studies show is accumulating rapidly in people, wildlife and the environment. A bill approved this week by the Maine legislature bans the sale of products containing the brominated flame retardant known as deca beginning Jan. 1, 2008. The ban is contingent on a finding by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the legislature that safer alternatives are available...."

Avoid Feeding Babies Fluoridated Water, Researchers Caution
Posted by NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation on Friday April 9, 2004 at 3:33 am MST
"New York - April 2204 - Infant formulas prepared with fluoridated water increase dental fluorosis risk, according to the April 2004 Journal of the American College of Nutrition(1) and other studies. To prevent this tooth staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas with fluoridated water...."