Marie asks about the ethics of offering pumps in a hospital, for mothers who
need them.

The Lactnet Archives are filled to the gills with posts about this.  In a
nutshell:  It is *always* ethical, in a clinical one-to-one patient
setting, to discuss *any* piece of breastfeeding equipment with *any*
mother.  Period.  You must, of course, conduct the discussion with all of
the professionalism described in  IBLCE Code of Ethics, and teh ILCA
Standards of Practice ... but discuss you may.

Whether a company is meeting its obligations under the [WHO] Code of
Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes is irrelevant to your responsibility,
under the IBLCE Scope of Practice for IBCLCs, to provide evidence-based
information and support to a woman, regarding her lactation status and
equipment or care plans that have a bearing on her situation.

Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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