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Sam writes:
Two of the remaining 6 babies were "breastfed" but one baby had not actually
successfully latched. If you take the traditional definition of
"breastfeeding" I suppose you could call it 43% of this particular population "initiating
breastfeeding" until you think about the fact that only one baby was
actually breastfeeding at all.
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One of the continuing problems is the definition of "breastfeeding". In many
of these surveys, hospital initiation rates that read "breastfeeding baby"
do not mean a baby that is actually breastfeeding at all times, but instead a
baby that was "ever breastfed". A baby that went to breast once, then mom
switched to artificial feeding, is still counted as a breastfeeding baby in
these papers.
Peace,
Judy
Judy LeVan Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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