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In 1991, Michael Woolridge was a speaker at the ILCA conference (Arizona).
He did a plenary session entitled "Breastfeeding in the UK and in Thailand:
parallels and differences". I *think* it was at that session that he
described a beastly hospital - complete mother-baby separation, no bfing
before 24 hours, always after test bottle-feeding, universal
supplementation, 4 hour feeds... and he asked us to guess the breastfeeding
rate a few weeks after discharge.
We all guessed it was low, of course, but in fact it was something like 98
percent - the result of being discharged from a Westernized hospital into a
breastfeeding culture.
Does anyone have this in their notes? I need to confirm what I think I
heard and when it was said.
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY
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