"Indeed Rachel, I read a paper from Timor Leste just last year where it was 
described how breastfeeding rates were lower for mothers who gave birth in 
hospitals....what is it that makes it so everywhere??"

It's my understanding that that's why we have a Baby-Friendly *Hospital* Initiative - that WHO and UNICEF looked at falling breastfeeding rates world-wide to try to figure out how to reverse the trend... and found that rates were *not* falling where midwives were helping women give birth at home.  It was the *hospitals* where breastfeeding was, um, drying up, so it was hospitals that were targeted with the initiative.  

What makes breastfeeding work poorly there?  Gosh, just think about  how much of our prenatal breastfeeding classes is simply instruction in how to buck the system!

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.normalfed.com


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