We would like some feedback from hospital-based LC's, in particular:
1.  How many LC's you have
2.  How many deliveries you have per year
3.  What hours you during the day you are in the hospital
4.  What services you provide
We have recently increased from two part-time positions (one 36 hours/week
and one 24hours per week) to two people each 36 hours/week.  We have been
seeing all new breastfeeding mothers, taking phone calls, seeing 2-3
outpatients/week, providing staff education, and developing policies.
Our hospital delivers about 2500 babies/year and has a 36 bed NICU (where
we also see patients)  We are nearly overwhelmed and now our managers want
7 day/week coverage.  (we currently have office hours 700am-330pm but
usually here later)  We know that the recommendations for number of
lc's/deliveries is 1 to 1000 (which we fall quite short of) so we want to
see how it is in the *real world*.

Thanks, Tess Parriott RN, IBCLC and Donna Slovinsky RN, IBCLC

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