>Hospital) the policy is now to teach breastfeeding in prenatal classes and
>bottle feeding individually by public health nurses or maternity nurses with
>follow up by public health as needed.   It has been the experience locally
>that this gives a better level of understanding for the parents who
>choose/require to bottle feed.
>
>Am I misinterpreting the Code?
>
>Rhoda Taylor, B.A., I.B.C.L.C., Vancouver Island, Canada


Don't think so, Rhoda.  I think you;re correct.  Here, hospital ante-natal
classes wishing to improve their practice in line with BF initiative, no
longer teach bottle feeding except one to one. In other a-n classes in the
community - done in local clinics - it is rarer than it used to be, too.

This caused a rumpus a few years ago - there were a few arguments in the
nursing journals, from health visitors and midwives saying they were now
'forbidden' to teach anything about formula feeding, and wasn't that
foolhardy?  Of course this was not true, and since then the fuss has died
down, as it becomes clearer that class teaching - when, classically, the
teacher demonstrated how to make up a bottle - is inappropriate for bottle
feeding. It is far more effective to oversee an individual mother who is
actually doing it, and to allow questions and discussion about all aspects
of it, as well as the ones that pertain to her own situation,to arise.


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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