Arly, I have mixed emotions about your "Breastfeeding: Medical Personnel Only"
signs. On the one hand, I can see this would be a great help in giving mom the
time to learn her baby and bf without the "help" of an endless stream of
visitors (although my guess is that grandmothers would ignore those signs
anyway....). However, it bothers me that we tie bf and the need for medical
personnel together, especially in light of how many of those folks are not
adequately trained to help with even the basics of positioning, timing, etc.
And, it is ironic that we should have to keep out the very people who OUGHT to
be a natural support system for these moms to help them with what they might
have done successfully a few generations back. And it would be nice if we were
such a breastfeeding culture that we would be comfortable nursing our babies in
front of anybody, anytime, any place.

I don't know how to get around this, and it would seem that the more immediate
and attainable goal is to do what it takes to get ONE mom nursing well rather
than trying to change societal attitudes all at once. And for too many moms that
means keeping extraneous people out.

Just out of curiosity, DO the grandmothers pay any attention to those signs?

Guess I better go before Kathy B sends me the oxygen mask for the thin air up
here on the soap box again..... : )

Melissa Vickers, IBCLC
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