Do these problems sound familiar?

                BYLINE: Bryan Christie Health Correspondent


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    Research by the Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) - published today
- has found one of the main stumbling blocks is the advice given to mothers.
Various problems were uncovered, including:

    o Support provided in hospital not being available when mothers
returned
home.

    o Lack of advice being offered on how mothers could express their milk

allowing the baby to continue to be breast-fed on the mother's return to work.

    o Encouragement given by one health professional to overcome a
breast-feeding
problem being undermined by another worker advising the mother to revert to
bottle-feeding.

    o Inadequate advice being given to mothers on overcoming problems such
as
sore nipples.

    HEBS has produced an information pack on breast-feeding...and is
distributing it to hospital consultants,
general practitioners, midwives, health visitors and other health professionals.




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Arly Helm                                       [log in to unmask]
(MS, Nutrition & Food Sciences, CLE, IBCLC; LC for IHC)