>If you had the chance to share 4 -5 key articles with a policy-maker
>for a hospital system,   which relate to the impact of pain
>management during labor on breastfeeding, what would you share?

I just finished reading a great article on just this topic for
my Nursing Mothers Counsel training.

Do Labor Medications Affect Breastfeeding?
Marsha Walker, RN IBCLC
Journal of Human Lactation 13(2), 1997

Great critique of the studies which previously showed that epidurals
have no effect on the newborn.

Kirsten Jones
Nursing Mothers Counsel member in training
Santa Cruz, California