Free bottle just turned up in the post- I thought this was not allowed?

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Was very surprised to get an Avent branded small package, opened it to find a small bottle with newborn teat. DC2 is expected in April and have signed up for a baby freebie website, but this came out of the blue. It didn't even have anything about breast milk is best etc. I have recently stopped BFding DC1 (2) and plan to EBF, will keep the freebie for expressed milk but am still surprised it can be sent...

Thoughts?

Your surprised it could be sent?!

I think they get round it because you signed up for it. Like the free polar bear

What site did you sign up for?

Have forgotten what the website was called, but it was a general one a bit like Bounty (which I dislike). I definitely remember opting out of the stuff I was not interested in (formula, some brands of nappies, book clubs, etc) so this must have been part of the general stuff.

I am surprised it could be sent out because I thought the WHO code prohibited freebies of formula and connected items...

As an ex HV and ex MW I can tell you these companies find all kinds of ways of getting round the code.

A bottle doesn't just have to be linked to ff. I ebf but used bottles for expressed milk. As I would say many breast feeding mothers also do?

But you can use BM in a bottle? That's the only way around it I think?

i too have that bottle

my baby is EBF, and now 5m old, but i was still pleased to get it...
can use for EBM / water, and when older just by a new spout and it turns into a "cup"

The WHO code is not law in the UK. I don't think there are any restrictions here on the promotion of bottles or teats and hardly any on follow-on formulas. Only first infant milks.