Further to the new thread, below, you might like to look at my long letter on the subject of the effect of maternity care on breastfeeding. It was an invited item.

* Thorley V. Guidelines to improve maternIty practices and support breastfeeding are readily available. Southern Medical Journal 2009; 102 (2): 222-223.

Something that may be useful for your files/

Virginia,
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Pamela Morrison posted the Medscape link and Helen Welford Neil commented
>--------------------------------
>Medscape Medical News
>Actions Alone May Improve Breast-feeding Rates
>Nancy A. Melville  Nov 12, 2012 Authors & Disclosures
>
>SAN FRANCISCO — The right interventions can 
>improve breast-feeding rates at hospitals, even 
>when motivation and knowledge are lagging, a new 
>study shows. The results >were presented here at 
>the American Public Health Association 140th 
>Annual Meeting.

Helen commented:
Very interesting....and it should speak to the 
leaders and managers within  institutions and 
agencies who tear their hair and roll their eyes 
and despair that 'attitudes' need to change among 
healthworkers before we can expect breastfeeding 
rates to change.

I think attitude change is fab, of course, but 
while we are waiting, how about just *doing* the 
stuff we know enables and empowers women to have 
the confidence and the skills to breastfeed 
happily? You know -  doing the stuff because it's 
policy and because you are not doing your job if 
you don't, and if you don't do your job, you will 
be accountable as to *why* you are not doing your 
job?

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