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Date: | Fri, 1 Aug 1997 19:12:44 -0400 |
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My name is Bonnie Riley RNC. I am a Nurse Manager in a Women's Health
Services department. We do about 90 deliveries a month in an LDRP
environment. I oversee L&D, Postpartum and a Level II nursery (Also, gyn
surgery). I am currently in the early stages of developing a strategy to
improve our breastfeeding support. Our very first effort will be to complete
a patient survey. I will also be gathering as much information as I can
about the immediate barriers to breastfeeding success in my institution.
My biggest concern is buy-in from the nursery staff, and the pediatricians.
If you have been through a similar experience and can share some wisdom, I
would be very grateful. I am convinced these nurses think that water
supplementation is the right thing to do for early breastfeeding moms.
Unfortunately, I am coming behind a well-meaning but politically inept
individual who alienated many of these staff members. I intend to use a very
careful, fact-based approach in the earlier parts of this effort. The
pediatricians also offer a surprising amount of resistance. If anyone has
any helpful strategies, I would be very grateful.
I will be developing a breastfeeding policy over the next few months, and
would welcome input towards that, as well.
Finding Lactnet has been great!
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