>Any tips on how to deal with one of our family docs who actively discourages breastfeeding? 

Twice, our local coalition put together mass mailings (including all pertinent area HCPs from pharmacists to dermatologists, depending) on topics that *a few* area physicians were seriously, um, uninformed about.  Everyone got the same information, no one was targeted, and perhaps a few of the papers didn't end up in waste baskets.  All I can say for sure is that the issues we did mailings on back then - thrush and antidepressants - don't seem to be local issues any more.

It might also be possible - though we didn't do it - to follow up with a note to the same people as needed saying, "Mothers' experiences indicate that there are still one or more offices that are unaware of the AAP's official position on XX.  We urge you to visit (website), to review the policy and the supporting research" or something like that.  If you wanted to save postage, the followup note *could* go only to the offenders.  Heck, there could even be a *third* note, with all the original papers, that goes only to those who are still "having trouble getting it."  Always polite, always upbeat.  The original notes were along these lines:  "There have been exciting new advances in understanding X, and we want to take this opportunity to share them with you."  

The info we sent did not go out under any one name -  just our coalition's - and it wasn't directed at any one office.  Seemed to work.  Come to think of it, we need to start doing it again, this time with starting solids...

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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