Surely the biologically if not culturally normal time to start breastfeeding
is during not right after a birth.
At both my ante natal classes here in the UK 5 years ago I was shown
illustration cards with a mother suckling, upright after delivering baby but
before delivering the placenta.
I managed to get this at home with my second child as the hospital
paediatricians at my first child's birth didn't seem to have been to the
same classes.
After that first birth I wrote to our UK paediatrician's professional body
about this. They had just that month stopped having Nestle sponsor their
annual conferences and in addition had some kind of committee to look at how
to make breastfeeding more normal.
I wrote suggesting they be trained in how to put a baby to the breast.
I never heard back but met an almost qualified hospital doctor a couple of
years later at a 'meet the home birth mothers'do. He had just done his
paediatric training and proudly told me that as part of this he has been
taught how to initiate breastfeeding.
I didn't question quite how this was being taught, but was just pleased to
see such an improvement in such a short time.
Incidentally he also told me that a lot of the paediatrician's wanted the
Nestle sponsorship back.



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