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[ID] 199 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Health Care Provider Lactation Professional Public Health Worker [Comment] Prenatal providers must bring up the topic of BF and encourage it as the norm, provide information to mothers on how breasts are changing too during pregnancy for BF. Hospitals need to get out of bed with the formula companies, as long as they keep handing out free formula and formula related gifts it amounts to an endorsement of these products. Hospital staff must be made aware of how their practices related to, comments about, own ignorance and bias' regarding BF affect the patient. Staff that is going to work in OB needs to be knowledgeable and BF friendly. The hospital's practices right after birth need to be changed so that nothing gets in the way of nursing from the first 1/2 hour of a baby's life on. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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