The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recently issued their new document, Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: The…
At a conference recently, I spoke with hundreds of IBCLCs. Most were nurses in hospitals, but that’s about the only generalization I can make about…
Maybe you’ve already started your journey to becoming Baby-Friendly. You might be wondering how to provide staff training for Baby-Friendly. Step 2 specifies that the facility…
In an earlier blog, I addressed “Be”-oriented objections for why your hospital “can’t” go Baby-Friendly. Now, let’s look at reasons related to what hospitals do —…
People often say, “We can’t go Baby-Friendly at our hospital.” They ask “Why can’t I get my hospital to change its practices?” What they mean…
“We’re planning to submit our hospital’s breastfeeding policy to Baby-Friendly USA,” I often hear. “If they don’t like it, they’ll help us fix it, right?”…
In 1993, I started helping people attain their IBCLCTM certification. Over the years, many course attendees have asked me: I’m not a nurse, and I…
At Breastfeeding Outlook, we get many calls from hospital staff members asking for help with their hospital breastfeeding policy. How many hospital breastfeeding policies have I…
Undertaking the process of becoming a Baby-Friendly facility can cause a case of nerves at the best of times. But in the case of any number of…
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “It costs too much to go Baby-Friendly!” Well, it’s true that going Baby-Friendly doesn’t happen for…