The previous post about the booklets designed to encourage women to stop
smoking during pregnancy are well designed.  They were written by the Fox
Chase Cancer Center to be used as part of a program to decrease smoking in
pregnant women and women with children.  They are used as part of a
counseling program; people are being trained in their use in the program.
 The program has been field tested and is reasonably effective.  The PA
Chapter of AAP, PA Dept of Health, and Am. Cancer Soc. are involved in a
cooperative effort to train people in using these booklets.  (I'm on the
PA-AAP's advisory committee for the project.)

I think that a similar training/educational project using similarly designed
materials, combined with a concerted public-educational campaign to promote
BF as the norm would be a most desirable project.

Funding would be needed; government grants & coordination and involvement of
all bodies involved in BF promotion would also be needed.

Anyone have any ideas about who and how such a project might be started?

Linda L. Shaw MD
Altoona, PA