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[ID] 168 [Interest Areas] Lactation Professional [Comment] There is a tremendous deficit in the provision of breastfeeding support by Health Care Providers. This lack of support begins in the prenatal period, when most expectant mothers receive little (if any) breastfeeding information from their health care providers, and frequently the information they are given is inaccurate. In addition, more and more expectant parents inform me that not only are they not being referred by their HCP to prenatal classes where breastfeeding information is provided, they are being told that such classes are unnecessary. Mothers encountering breastfeeding difficulties after the baby is born cannot rely on the provision of evidence based breastfeeding support by either their HCP, or the infant's HCP. Mothers assume that the obstetrician and/or pediatrician will provide competent breastfeeding information and support, but often it is the physician's lack of basic breastfeeding knowledge that sabotages breastfeeding support. At the hospital where I work, we are making a concerted effort to provide research/evidence based breastfeeding training to our MCH staff, and to encourage staff to utilize this training in their clinical practice. This however, sometimes seems futile, when the physicians are not also committed to evidence based practices. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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