1511cf66_all_To_Action_on_Breastfeeding__Topic
[ID] 535 [Interest Areas] Public Health Worker [Comment] I teach nutrition education and cooking & shopping skills to limited resource families. Virtually none of my clients have breastfed. A recent client told me she had wanted to breastfeed, but after her C-section they gave her morphine and then she could not breastfeed her baby(her fourth child). Ideally, someone should have provided her a breastpump and taught her to use it to discard her milk while on morphine so that she could then breastfeed her son after she was done with the morphine. Alternatively, other pain medication could have been provided that would not have affected her milk. Unfortunately, we need to reach these moms when they are pregnant with their first child, not their last. However, due to their youth, and the attitude that often accompanies that age, they are not so interested in information on healthy choices at that time of their lives. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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