> Breastfeeding training urged
>
> Helen Carter
> Thursday November 14, 2002
> The Guardian
>
> Unicef is today calling for better training of midwives and health visitors to
> support breastfeeding mothers.
>
> It has produced a set of guidelines after it discovered that many newly
> qualified health professionals lacked knowledge and skills to help with
> breastfeeding. The programme was launched at the annual conference of the UN
> children's fund in Harrogate. Andrew Radford, Unicef's programme director,
> said that the lack of a reliable and consistent standard of breastfeeding
> education in Britain had undermined mothers' chances of feeding their babies
> successfully.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,839339,00.html

-- Jodine Chase

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