In a message dated 98-04-01 01:25:45 EST, you write:

<< Our small 30 bed hospital that does 100 births a year is finally getting
serious about implementing ALL the 10 steps for the BFHI.  We have been trying
over the past 4 years to do all the right things >>

Is there a web site for the breastfeeding friendly hospital initiative?  I am
interested in pushing it at the hospital I will be working in as breastfeeding
counselor.  Has anyone been in the position of trying to transition a hospital
to bf friendly from the position of a lower level staff member? (I will be lay
lactation consultant, but they dont have ANY LC's through the week.)  I heard
recently that there was only ONE bf friendly hospital in the US.  Can this be
true?  If so, it certainly disappointed me.  Good luck to you, Dr.
Ahrendsen--and by the way, great web page on the benefits of bf!

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Joy Berry-Parks
LLL of Central Arkansas
Attachment Parenting Group of Arkansas
Anthropologist-in-training
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"Childhood Decides."   Jean-Paul Sartre
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