http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2009_15_fri.shtml

You can listen by clicking the link on the page linked to above.

The 'breastfeeding expert' they interview is not part of any of the 
existing organisations, and some of us have doubts about some aspects 
of her practice, and her account of what people hear when they go to 
breastfeeding classes is not accurate ('90 per cent of the class is 
taken up by telling them why they should breastfeed') .

The doctor they interview is pretty OK, IMO.

The written blurb outlining the item is a bit misleading - the main 
part of the discussion is not about 'too much pressure' being put on 
women to bf, but about how to get bf going well so babies are not put 
at risk of dehydration.

The 'breastfeeding expert' says she 'sometimes sees several babies a 
week' who are dehydrated. I would be very surprised if this was true, 
so please do not think the UK is a 'hotbed' of dehydrated babies. I 
think she means several mothers and babies a week who have yet to get 
breastfeeding going effectively.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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