Laura writes: >I appreciate your reply Heather.  The sad part is that we DO
have a >breastfeeding policy!  We are revising it now to update it.  I'm
sorry to say that it is not >taken seriously.

It's the same all over the world. I have just come from a meeting with
midwives when I asked about their bf policy....they used almost the same
words 'no one takes it seriously enough'.  This was in the context of
babies being routinely 'topped up' by a small number of midwives.

It becomes then a staff management issue, as another post suggested.


The boss - whoever it is - has at some point to tell people what to do, and
to introduce sanctions when policy is not followed.  People don't like
being told what to do? Tough!

Not that that helps anyone like you, who is just a colleague, of course.

As for pain relief - there's enough known about skin-to-skin and cuddling
and comforting through bf to make pacifiers as pain relief redundant.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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