CB writes: "What are they thinking?"
1. They have 10 minutes to address all the issues coming up
2. They fall back on what the formula companies suggest because it's all
they know [or all they've heard lately]
3. Breastfeeding is an awful lot of hassle because they don't see the
patients that it works well for [those kids are usually too healthy to be
in for any thing but well checks]
3A.  They also think that only infants breastfeed because seldom do the
moms volunteer that they are nursing their toddlers for fear that they'll
be told to stop

4. They don't know how to recognize simple breastfeeding problems because
they were never taught how
5. They don't know how to solve simple breastfeeding problems even if they
can recognize them
6. They see a referral to a Lactation expert as a last resort if they don't
have one incorporated into their practice
7. They see lactation people as an indistinct group because they don't know
what the initials mean
8. They think in all this that they ARE being supportive of breastfeeding.

Gail  [continually searching for ways to teach her peers about
breastfeeding]
Gail S. Hertz, MD, IBCLC
Resident,  Dept. of Pediatrics
PSGHS Children's Hospital
Hershey  PA
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