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Actually, in my country (the Netherlands) numbers were falling everywhere. 
I think both 'emancipation' (in our country that seems to mean that women need to copy men) 
and the milk-lobby are the main causes. 

We don't only have breastfeeding friendly hospital wards (the maternity ward may own the 
certificate if the childrens ward doesn't, which means a hospital with only one certificate is not 
necessary very baby friendly on the whole), but also bab friendly 'kraamzorg', which is the 
organisation that sends maternity nurses to care for mother and child at home from delivery 
untill the baby is a week old. And midwifes are getting certified, too. The newest thing is well-
child clinics that are being certified. 

Heleen

On 23 Apr 2008 at 9:31, Diane Wiessinger wrote:

> "Indeed Rachel, I read a paper from Timor Leste just last year where it was 
> described how breastfeeding rates were lower for mothers who gave birth in 
> hospitals....what is it that makes it so everywhere??"
> 
> It's my understanding that that's why we have a Baby-Friendly *Hospital* Initiative - that WHO and UNICEF looked at falling breastfeeding rates world-wide to try to figure out how to reverse the trend... and found that rates were *not* falling where midwives were helping women give birth at home.  It was the *hospitals* where breastfeeding was, um, drying up, so it was hospitals that were targeted with the initiative.  
> 
> What makes breastfeeding work poorly there?  Gosh, just think about  how much of our prenatal breastfeeding classes is simply instruction in how to buck the system!
> 
> Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY  USA
> www.normalfed.com
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