If your facility, like where I work, has trouble with different staff
members giving different instructions to the mom about when to feed her
baby, you might want to use our poster.  Since we wanted everyone “on the
same page,” the art department created a poster that gives the impression of
an open book. The left page talks about feeding cues, the right page talks
about other things we want the parents, the grandmas, and *the staff* to
know and follow.  We call it the “Book on Breastfeeding” poster. We have it
laminated and it hangs in all 78 postpartum rooms (and I think maybe in the
L&D rooms, too).  Eventually it would be great to get it into the clinic
exam rooms.  We’ve been using it for the past year and a half, and it’s been
a great help for both parent and staff education. Having it hanging on the
wall sends a clear message that this is what we believe.
 
Some might disagree with the final bullet point about “it’s time to feed
your baby if. . . .he hasn’t breastfed in the past 2-3 hours” since timing
is less of a focus now.  We had to put that in to get it past Nursing
approval.  But it’s okay.  We just tell the mom to get baby skin-to-skin if
it’s been 2 -3 hours and then to follow the baby’s cues.  We have problems
with moms wanting to send the baby to the nursery for the night, so the
final bullet point on the right is our attempt to address that it’s not
going to let her get any more sleep.
 
You can take a look or download it for your facility from the “resources”
page of  the Missouri Breastfeeding Coalition website at HYPERLINK
"http://www.mobreastfeeding.org/"www.mobreastfeeding.org. Click on
“resources” and scroll down.  If you decide to use it, please send me an
email privately, so I can notify the hospital administration.  This is from
a Sisters of Mercy hospital with a mission to serve, and they like to know
where they’ve been helpful.
 
Debbi Heffern, RD, IBCLC
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