I wanted to share with you an important event for breastfeeding here in Israel. Today the first official course on breastfeeding for nurses was started, by the Ministry of Health. These nurses work in "well baby clinics", and are in touch with nearly 100% of babies born in Israel. They are the ones who most often help mothers with bf, and up to now they knew only very little about bf, as they themselves said today. Most of them helped mothers according to their own experience, or "common knowledge". This is a pilot course, with 22 nurses from all over the country, who will learn how to teach the nurses in their area. Whithin the next few years we expect all nurses in the well baby clinics (several thousand) to go through this course. The Ministry of Health has worked on this programm for several years, and as the head of neonatology in one of our biggest hospitals, who was very active in this, said - we felt like watching the birth of a baby. Mira Leibovich, MD mailto:[log in to unmask]