They don’t call him Nanny Bloomberg for nothing.
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers 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 the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives.
Should new mothers in New York be creeped out that the mayor is thinking so much about their breasts that he’ll have hospitals hide baby formula from them?
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.
Predictable outcome of the “hide the formula” policy: Women will stop going to the hospitals to get formula, and will end up getting less contact with doctors. Like Bloomberg’s rant about police going on strike to promote gun control, this policy is likely to be counterproductive to his goals.
Ok, just so we’re clear on this. According to Bloomberg and his ilk:
Deciding whether or not to terminate the fetus: it’s no one’s damn business, the woman’s word is absolute and final.
Deciding whether or not to breast feed: the government is perfectly justified in meddling with your decision, up to and including harrassment.
That sure makes a lot of sense.
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Because what these Lefties really want to control (besides the population) is population growth. Because there are too damn many of us, using up Mother Earth’s resources (and blocking their views of West Coast sunsets).
Lefties just want control period. They want control from before birth to after death (burial regulations and such). The Lefties won’t really be happy until they have us all kitted out tracking devices that monitor all activity not just where we are. Even then one suspects it won’t be enough.
Bloomberg is NOT a ‘leftie’. He is an Independent. He switched from Democrat to Republican, and then from Republican to Independent.
Bernie Sanders in an independent.
I doubt that very many folks here would call him anything other than a leftie.
The reference wasn’t to political party, it was to mindset.
Bloomberg switches parties at his convenience.
His mindset remains firmly leftist.
Bingo.
Along with that, they do have some things they want to get done (like reducing the population) but the bottom line is always….
You don’t think just as the baby boomers are going to need Medicare there will be 500B less do you? Take 500B out and you get rationing.
Wow! NannY “B” is a expert on Child care also ?.. I think Nursing Mothers sexually excite Him.. He is a Liberal yet very controlling .. He needs mental help !!
“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.”
Great – Good to see the breastfeeding groups (sometimes referred to as “Lactation Nazis” by new moms) have the political power to influence policy. Who thinks lecturing new moms on their decisions is a good idea? When we were expecting our child, we got the usual “breast is best” speeches over and over – to the point where women who have problems are made to feel they are bad moms because they have to resort to formula. In truth a lot of women (and newborns) have issues that make breastfeeding difficult or even impossible. And would this apply to couples who adopt or use surrogates?
Encouraging breastfeeding? Sure. Offering help? Sure. Have a policy where moms are lectured to because they choose (or out of necessity) to use formula is policy makers (here – mayor) meddling in medical decisions.
No, it’s not a lot. It’s a few. These should be supported and helped.
It’s a lot who prefer their own convenience over what’s best for the baby and their own health.
These should be condemned.
Ddin’t Bloomberg get the two-term limit changed and then virtually buy a 3rd term?
New Yorkers deserve him. Remember the Manhattan mob that almost became violent when Republicans held a McCain march in 2008? It may well be that Ney Yorkers are indeed not able to find their collective ding-dong without both hands and a flashlight, they are that stupid anymore. Maybe that’s why Bloomberg, on observing this, has decided to meddle further and further into their lives. But the rest of us are NOT New Yorkers, and we don’t need this jerk to tell us what to do, and believe me, he wants to go national with this nonsense.
Since he’s ended all crime, has got all of infrastucture up to snuff, has balanced the budget, the school system is producing nothing but valedictorians, and the public sector unions have made all the concessions necessary for New Yorkers to live in utopia…Bloomberg has lots of spare time on his hands to deal with smoking, soda sizes, salt and boobies.
A ‘tell’ of incompetency is that an extracurricular focus becomes a central focus. Since the person cannot perform the required tasks for the job, he ‘creates’ tasks his can do. So what if Bloomberg’s job is mayor, he wants to be the MOMMY. If he keeps this up, he won’t even be able to buy the next election.
That said, I did breastfeed my children and it was a great experience with benefits for both my children and me; however, when my friend, a classic type A personality, tried it and had a colicky baby, I encouraged her to use formula. Sure enough the colic went away. Motherhood is NOT one shoe fits all. Perhaps Bloomberg’s mom didn’t nurse him and he’s suffering from teat-envy. (That sound you hear is Freud turning over in his grave…)
I guess the SNAP program is having financial trouble. Bloomberg takes forcing people on the government ‘tit’ too far!!!
What happens if the breasts are bigger than 16 ounces?
No problem — only applies to “take-outs” and … breast-feeding is “slow-food”.
Anyway, Bloombug’s an idiot, either way!
Whatever happened to medical advice being a doctor-patient affair?
Hey Women of NYC, Bloomberg needs to get something off his chest and onto yours.
This is what happens when you are a bored Billionaire whose flunkies do all the work and he takes all the credit.
By the way, who is PAYING for this program?
Does Nanny Know Breast? Or Is He Just A Big Boob?
http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/07/nanny-bloomberg-big-boob.html
Let’s see, Roe v. Wade says you can’t restrict abortion because that would mean intruding on a woman’s penumbral right of privacy and interjecting the state into decisions best made between her and her doctor. Good thing to know that nothing like that is happening here.