Diana Roberts writes:


>Have you seen this article?
>
>Paediatrics: Breastfeeding and infant nutrition
>----------------------------------------------------
>     http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/breastfeeding_and_infant_nutrition
>
>
>Quality improvement report: Effect on rates of breast feeding of training
>for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
>     Adriano Cattaneo and Roberto Buzzetti
>     BMJ 2001;323 1358-1362


I like this article, as it indicates not only that good training of
healthcare professionals works to raise initiation and discharge
rates of bf, but that rates are also significantly higher 3 months
and 6 months later.

This counteracts the idea that hospital-based initiatives only
succeed in 'forcing' women to bf, and that they can't wait to get
home to formula feed instead....

...which is something I occasionally hear, mostly from
'professionals' who don't really want to be trained in the first
place : (

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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