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Date: | Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:05:49 EST |
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I, too, had a positive experience observing breastfeeding at a Mexican
hospital. I was on a health tour of the Texas/Mexican border towns with
other medical students and we toured the public hospital Hospital
Pumarejo, in Matamoros. Since I was doing a breastfeeding project later
on in the year I spent the day on the maternity ward. They do not have
nurseries. All babies stay with the mother. They have no bottles in the
hospital. They have signs all over with bottles and big red lines through
them. They have a beautiful mosaic demonstrating how to breastfeed (belly
to belly, eye to eye...) and there is a wall of photos of nurses showing
moms how to breastfeed. The nurse gave a class for the new moms (all in
Spanish so I only understood some of it) on breastfeeding. And they have
100% breastfeeding. Maybe we can follow their example. They also train
other health care providers from other hospitals on how to make their
hospitals breastfeeding friendly.
Michelle Elisburg
MS3, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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