brittone2
08-02-2011, 02:19 PM
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/VitalSigns/Breastfeeding/
Just bumped into this and thought I would share.
from the above:
The CDC Vital Signs report, Hospital Practices to Support Breastfeeding — United States, 2007 and 2009, shows 96 percent of hospitals lack maternity care policies and practices that fully support moms to be able to breastfeed.
http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/08/...eeding-support (http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/08/02/7230412-cdc-to-hospitals-pump-up-your-breast-feeding-support)
From the above:
Less than 4 percent of U.S. hospitals do everything they should to help mothers breast-feed, and only 14 percent of hospitals have a written, model breast-feeding policy.
Only one-third of hospitals practice rooming in, where mothers and babies stay together so that they have frequent chances to breast-feed. And nearly 80 percent of hospitals give formula to healthy breast-feeding infants when it’s not medically necessary, the report finds.
Just bumped into this and thought I would share.
from the above:
The CDC Vital Signs report, Hospital Practices to Support Breastfeeding — United States, 2007 and 2009, shows 96 percent of hospitals lack maternity care policies and practices that fully support moms to be able to breastfeed.
http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/08/...eeding-support (http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/08/02/7230412-cdc-to-hospitals-pump-up-your-breast-feeding-support)
From the above:
Less than 4 percent of U.S. hospitals do everything they should to help mothers breast-feed, and only 14 percent of hospitals have a written, model breast-feeding policy.
Only one-third of hospitals practice rooming in, where mothers and babies stay together so that they have frequent chances to breast-feed. And nearly 80 percent of hospitals give formula to healthy breast-feeding infants when it’s not medically necessary, the report finds.