Hello to LACTNET participants...For those of you that would like to read
more about the breastfeeding promotion program spearheaded by Betty Jones
at IsstiCali Hospital in Tijuana, you can read her description in the
textbook edited by the Jelliffes (Derrick and Patrice Jelliffe).  The book
is entitled "Programs to Promote Breastfeeding".  It was published several
years ago.  Vicky

>MHS:   Source date is:     07-Jun-95 11:06:00 -0300 EDT
>======== Original Message ========
>Alicia's note about the staff at a San Diego hospital promoting
>bfing by hanging pictures of themselves nursing their own babies
>is a wonderful idea. Not only is a picture worth a thousand
>words, but paraphrasing "putting your body (money) where your
>(baby's) mouth is seems appropriate here", hmmmmm? Judy K.
>======== Fwd by: Judy Canahuat ========
>The originators of this idea, to the best of my knowledge, were at the
>Social Security hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.  I saw the pictures there in
>1986, when I took my first trip to Wellstart, and thought then that they
>were a wonderful morale booster and fostered a sense of solidarity between
>staff and patients.  As  some of you probably know, Wellstart is in San
>Diego and there has been quite a bit of interaction between Wellstart staff
>and the many local hospitals over the course of the last 13 years or so. At
>the time, Betty Jones, the nutritionist who was then at Wellstart, had been
>working with them for several years and that hospital was doing some really
>great things in the pre-Baby Friendly atmosphere.  I first met Betty Jones
>in the early 1980s when she came to Honduras with a group of plastic
>surgeons from a group called Interplast developed at Stanford Medical
>School.  They did reconstructive surgery and Betty tried out the still
>somewhat radical idea at that time of having babies nurse within a couple of
>hours after the surgery and up to very shortly before.  If my memory serves
>me well, Betty published on that experience.  I'm not sure if this is now
>standard practice in the US, but at the time (around 15 years ago), only we
>"breastfeeding fanatics" brought up this issue.

Vicky Newman, MS, RD
Perinatal Nutritionist
Lactation Management Education Program
Wellstart International
and
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Phone: (619) 574-8158
Fax: (619) 294-7787
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