A great group of breastfeeding advocates have been working hard in local
hospitals to meet the BFHI (or in California, the Breastfeeding Model
Hospital Policy Recommendations).  

I was at a meeting where they discussed the barrier to this step - lawyers!
When the term "informed consent" is used in their milieu - it requires a
PHYSICIAN to provide the information and obtain the "informed consent".  

This clearly reinforces the importance of an "interdisciplinary team" when
working out the issues related to improving hospitals policies and
practices!  They are working on this right now, and it will take some give
and take - but I hope that they will come up with something that will be
useful and useable in their hospital - and that will meet the requirements
of this step.

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
California, USA

...and I hope I don't break the rules TOO much by asking you to stop by the
Poster Sessions at ILCA - I will be presenting on the "Birth and Beyond
California" Project and would LOVE to meet Lactnetters face-to-face!

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