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[ID] 557 [Interest Areas] Lactation Professional Public Health Worker [Comment] The routine use of medical interventions and medical pain relief has a profound effect on newborn's readiness to feed at birth. The breastfeeding community needs to get active promoting normal, un-medicated, un-induced, un-augmented birth. The C-section rate is now over 30%, and many mothers are delivered of their babies before the baby is ready. These practices are interfering with breastfeeding. We have done a great job in getting lactation professionals into the hospital to help mothers breastfeed soon after birth. Now we have to listen to what these professionals are saying about the impact of routine interventions during labor and birth on the initiation of breastfeeding. We have great answers to these problems. Doulas attending births help reduce the need for medical interventions and help mothers start breastfeeding right away. In addition, home births with Certified Professional Midwives has been shown to be safe and to reduce the use of medical interventions and to improve breastfeeding success. It's time to use evidence based practice in labor and delivery, just as Lactation Consultants have been doing for breastfeeding. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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