I have a neighbor who just gave birth to her third, and who had to have a cesaerean. In the past I've tried to impress upon her the importance of feeding the baby at night..because she keeps having the babies one after another. Now that she's had an operation, she doesn't seem to think the way she used to.. is there a gentle way of maybe encouraging her to take advantage of the infertility of breastfeeding without being really abrupt. The woman needs a break but she doesn't want to admit it! (but she's exhausted..her oldest is 2 and 9 mos!) The other thing is that she doesn't read well..someone lent her the Womanly Art but she just never sat down to read it. Is the Womanly Art available in an audio version? As for baby friendly hospitals..maybe there's a way of adding "Infant Formula" to the formal bill a couple receives when Mom and baby leave the hospital. Maybe telling the couple that they have to foot the bill from the beginning will start them asking questions about the expense of artificial feeding. As far as Baby friendly goes, Israel seems to be far behind.. When my daughter was born I had to fight to nurse her after eight hours! She weighed in at 4 kilo and they told me "she doesn't need it"... meanwhile, the girl who was a first time mother and sharing one of the five beds in our room was discouraged from nursing because she just didn't get the help she needed and her baby got jaundice..probably from lack of fluids. The nurses sneered at me for being pushy, but I let them know that I was Mom and that I was the one who was taking the baby home and therefore the baby would be fed the way *I* wanted it to be fed... I would seriously like to go back to the same hospital, because the gynecological staff there is fantastic, but I'm worried about the breastfeeding issue.. I know someone who had a preemie there and the pediatrician insisted on giving the baby formula and she died of "blood poisoning".... I wonder if it could have been avoided with that special preemie milk that only mother's bodies know how to make. Any suggestions for dealing with the hospital now? I'm only asking because I know how much the doctors there go through to avoid unneccessary operations. They spend three hours turning around a breech, and so on. And the head gynecologist is one of the best in our country...if only they knew more about breastfeeding... they could be a rate A hospital. Nofia (I would love to have the next one in the living room but my husband doesn't like the idea..but last time I made it to the hospital and had the baby a mere twenty minutes later...and that was only because we were in the city. so the idea of having the baby in our living room isn't really a joke... it's a possibility.)