Hi! My name is Lisa Reed and I am a junior nursing student from the 
University of North Dakota. I am in my childbearing class this semester 
and am interested in learning about peer counseling for breastfeeding. I 
have reviewed the archives on this listserv and have been reading the 
discussions posted here daily for the last week. In my archives search I 
saw that this topic hasn’t been addressed for over five years!
 As some are already aware, the number of breastfeeding women has 
increased; however, there is still much work to be done. Results of 
Healthy People 2000 indicate an especially poor turnout of those who are 
low-income, black, or Hispanic, for example. (CDC, 1999). A trial 
performed by Anderson, Damio, Young, Chapman, & Perez-Escamilla (2005) 
showed the benefits of peer counseling in promoting EBF. Hoddinott & Pill 
(2000) point out that women prefer to be shown how to breastfeed their 
infants as opposed to being told how to do it.
 I would appreciate any feedback you may have about peer 
counseling. I am interested in knowing the basics of how your peer 
counseling program works, and also what the outcome of it is. If you do 
not have a peer counseling program at your institution, do you think it 
would be a good idea to implement one, and what guidelines would you have 
for it? Basically, what works and what doesn’t? Any comments or 
suggestions are appreciated. Thank you! 

Lisa Reed, SN


 Anderson, A., Damio, G., Young, S., Chapman, D., & Perez-
Escamilla, R. (2005). A Randomized Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Peer 
Counseling on Exclusive Breastfeeding in a Predominately Latina Low-Income 
Community. [Electronic version]. Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, 9, 836-
841.
 Centers for Disease Control (CDC): National Center for Health 
Statistics. (1999.) Healthy People 2000: Maternal and Infant Health 
Progress Review. Retrieved January 17, 2006, from 
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/hp2000/childhlt/childhlt.htm.
 Hoddinott, P., & Pill, R. (2000). A qualitative study of women's 
views about how health professionals communicate about infant feeding. 
Health Expectations 3 (4), 224-233.

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