Our community hospital (250-300 births per year) has a published breastfeeding rate at discharge of 50-60% with most quitting within the first 6 weeks. Estimates of post-6 weeks breastfeeding are around 10%. I would like to submit a proposal for improvement to the staff and providers to improve those rates and need some assistance with the how-to aspect. We do not have a LC on staff and part of the proposal will be for the hospital to provide payment for training of a nurse (or me!) as a LC. So, my questions: What are your breastfeeding rates at discharge? at 2 weeks? post 6 weeks? What do you do to keep moms from quitting? or to put it another way, to keep them motivated to continue breastfeeding. Is there a support program that works for you? Are your baby docs breastfeeding-friendly? If not, how do you "educate" them? Tina Crowgey, M.T.(ASCP), childbirth educator