Chris asked what can be done to make a community's health care providers
support breastfeeding. The customers are most likely to have an impact.
Try to learn where to direct requests/demands/complaints. A local doctor
told me that mothers' letters to the hospital would be trashed. They should
write letters to the town NEWSPAPER instead.
I encourage moms to educate everywhere they go. Tell their doctors how
often they really nursed. Show him or her the book or reference that was
helpful. Reveal who helped. Fight the insurance company rejection. Tell
the formula carrying nurse, "no."
The mothers you help also teach and support their neighbors, sisters and the
lady they don't really know in church. Good is contagious.
We still have a million miles to go, but it helps my attitude to see all
that we do accomplish.
Keep up the good work, Pam Easterday LLLL Ohio USA
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