I had an interview with a couple yesterday who will be bringing their newborn to me (once he is born) for well-baby care. We offer all new patients in our practice a free consult just for questions, if they like, so this couple came to feel me out ahead of time. They asked good questions on breastfeeding, especially, and wanted to know what I would be doing to support them. It was quite pleasant to have such good questions ahead of time, since I seem to spend so much time trying to talk reluctant folks into breastfeeding. Unfortunately, they are not delivering at my hospital, and are delivering at another local hospital. I've had a number of patients referred to me after delivering there who've been given spectacularly bad advice. Today, I saw a 4 day old that I had to put under bili lights who was discharged from the same hospital. Mom was sent home with a nipple shield (and no instructions on use, other than "put this over your nipple") for sore nipples. Her milk had not come in yet, baby was latching incorrectly and mom was incredibly frustrated and had used formula all night. Bili was 21, baby was fortunately very active and eager at the breast. I helped her with positioning, gave her some info on sore nipples, told her to throw out the nipple shield. Milk came in over night, and baby seemed impressed with this! Baby is now at home on bili blanket, and hopefully nursing better. Currently, when a mom interviews me prior to delivery, I have been handing out Motherwear's Breastfeeding Guide, which is a 30 page document that you can download from the internet. It has good info, and was free, except for copying costs. It also has a number of beautiful pictures of moms nursing their babies. Does anyone have anything inexpensive that may be a better thing to hand out? Or maybe something in addition? I am currently employed by the practice I work for, and don't have a budget for patient education, but wouldn't mind paying a small amount for something. I'd ideally like to have something that promotes breastfeeding, and gives parents some guidelines for how to advocate for their breastfed newborn. I don't worry about my own OB patients (because they have me to advocate for them!) but have recently seen a bunch of patients a few days or weeks down the road who are having all sorts of problems generated by bad advice. At least for those moms who interview me ahead of time, I'd like to have something good to give them. Jennifer Tieman Family Physician Mom to 3, and new baby #4 expected 5/31/03 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html