We're not a Baby Friendly Hospital : (
but we do give a nice Breastfeeding friendly gift bag. It is a large
canvas tote with "The Nursing Mother's Companion", a pair of flannel
nursing pads and a tube of Lansinoh.  We pay for the bags, and a
volunteer puts them together.

We still give out those vile formula marketing bags (and I say if I can
get rid of them I will die happy). They are supposed to be given out by
physician order only, but mother's bring in those coupons and most of
the nurses just give it to them.  Most of the nurses just don't "get
it" about the formula marketing bags.  When I orient a new nurse (they
all have to spend 3-4 hrs with lactation) I say they are not "gifts"
and they do not support breastfeeding, they in fact can disrupt
breastfeeding and their only purpose is to promote formula.


Andrea Tran RN, IBCLC
Erie, CO
who works at Boulder Community Foothills Hospital (and who has a not so
hidden agenda to get her hospital Baby Friendly)

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