Denise--

Seconding Deena's reply, the training pediatricians get in contaception
varies from program to program, but once you start seeing adolescents, you
better know your stuff.  My formal training was fairly limited-- as a
resident, my outpatient training was at a Catholic hospital, so I had no
practical clinical training; the residency program was actually in two
hospitals, however, so at the other hospital where I did my inpatient
rotations, we probably had a few lunchtime lectures that I may have slept
thru after a night oncall.

I had gone to medical school at UCDavis, and spent a very brief part of my
twelve week Ob/gyn rotation at planned parenthood, where my preceptor was
Gary Stewart, one of the authors of Contraceptive Technology, which at that
time was a little pamphlet, which I thought was only locally read, but
nevertheless useful.  However, it has since become the definitive work, to
which I believe most refer, so you could use it's thorough coverage of the
difference between the ideal and real (I believe they use other terminology
for these concepts) to show your neonatologist.  Take in the whole book, so
he will grasp authority of the work, and tag the pertinent pages.

Most of my training has been "on the job," seeing teens in my practice.
 That's when I found out my mild mannered med school preceptor (whom I
remember chiefly for his unselfconscious referral to his teenage clients as
"women") was a nationally known author.

Back to IBLCE study--  (By the way, we got more training in contraception
than in breastfeeding!)

Tina