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[ID] 684 [Interest Areas] Breastfeeding Coalition Representative Community Organizer Health Care Provider Health Professional Organization Lactation Professional Public Health Worker [Comment] I was a Neonatal ICU nurse for a number of years before I had my own children. I realize that breastfeeding in our society is sometimes not the most convenient. But I think 80-90% of our moms pumped in the Nicu, they may have not continued to nurse at home or they just pumped milk in a bottle. But they saw the importance of the milk . We as nurses and the medical community see a difference in outcomes from BM to formula. In my own experience when both my children were sick they would only take BM and could only digest that when vomiting, diarrhea, or bad colds...and at least they were getting nutrition. Not just pedialyte. But we live in this society where we do not want to make others feel guilty , rather than eduacting them on the seriousness of breastfeeding and also what baby needs most is their mothers. Any amount of time a mom nurses is better than no nursing. I went to a children's museum the other day with my boys and I only saw one mom nurse, in a nursing dungeon corner. Every mom or caregiver was bottle feeding. We frown upon a mom nursing in public, standing in a line, etc....what would mom then com to. Do what everyone else is doing. Anyway, we need more prenatal and hospital support. thank you. Christina Falco [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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