I'm confused about this link regarding breastfeeding?

It is an international code, not a law, that encourages nations to institute such guidelines in an effort to make breastfeeding as easy as possible and not to introduce formula at all as it easily interferes with breastfeeding.

"Likes to give advice" is correct. The US did not adopt this code, so the manufacturers are free to market their products any way they like. Although most people look at these samples as free, we all know that nothing is truly free. Everyone who purchases formula has to pay for all those samples. And of course, there is no one marketing breastmilk, because there is no profit in it.

I also completely breastfed on call for. It change into actual fairly basic purely to flow with my instincts and do what my body change into made to do. even as she'd cry and nuzzle for foodstuff, i might want to nurse her. as long as your son is gaining weight and wetting diapers (it would not count number if he poops on daily foundation! that is not uncommon for a healthy unconstipated infant to take 10 days to poop - I examine that on-line and my well being practitioner shown it. My daughter once took seven days to poop and it change right into a usual mushy poo. Breastfed children have a tendency to take longer to poo because that there's a lot less "waste" fabric as breastmilk is made on your newborn). give up weighing your infant, honey!!! which will make your existence one thousand circumstances extra reachable. I genuinely in no way weighed my little another than for the period of verify-ups. Throw that scale away. as long as he's gaining weight (some benefit extra slowly - breastfed children have a tendency to be smaller before each and every thing than formula-fed children. My daughter change into the different and change into huge, very uncommon for breastfed children.) then he's nice! :)

Your country needs to adopt a strategy similar to the MAIF agreement (http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing....

In Australia, infant formula companies/manufacturers can not give out free samples of infant formula. Nor can they advertise infant formula via any Media outlet. Unfortunately, they can advertise toddler formula.

How did you get free samples if you didn't request it? Did they give it to you in your doctor's office where you could have turned it down? Or was it mailed to you? If it was mailed to you, then someone put you on that mailing list, or you might have accidentally put yourself on the mailing list. It's not against the law in any case.

You can always donate it to a homeless shelter, or during a food drive. There's no reason to throw away perfectly good food, even if you're not the one who will use it.

"So why are they able to give away free samples to pregnant women then?"

Because formula companies are run by assholes. They don't care about babies, they don't care about mothers, they don't care about the WHO, they don't care about marketing their products in an ethical fashion. Formula manufacturers are absolute slime.

Throw out the samples as you would with any other advertising or foul-tasting junk food.