I used to work in a hospital with a large Spanish population , and many of the
couples spoke No English at all,  Since I don't either, I wondered and worried
what to do when the so called breastfeeding mothers almost universally wanted to
give formula the first day, and then would be out the door.  We lined up
translators to help with encouraging moms to give colostrum right away.  If they
were unavailable, we spoke with them the best we could and encouraged baby to
breast-Many moms seemed very modest, and did not want to breastfeed around staff
plus there were usually many family members all crowded in the room.  They
continued to say NO LECHE, and did not seem to know that colostrum was LECHE!
We also had a Kitty Franz video and a Medela Spanish video which we would show,
and ordered in  bulk a nice pamphlet from LLL, color, with pictures of Spanish
nursing moms.  On page 5 it says,No le des otra leche, Ni agua, Ni te, ni
chupon.  (no other milk, no water, no tea, no pacifierss, and has a picture of
all these item crossed out.  It also explains aabout the calostro, saying it is
the first food and is all that is necessary for the baby.  We liked it a lot and
the mothers seemed to as well.  This pamphlet is #95SP, and is less expensive
ordered in bulk.  Hope this helps.  The interesting thing, is that frequently
even if the baby got bottles early, they seemed to be able to go to breast
anyhow later and we didn't see much "nipple confusion".

Ann Calandro