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[ID] 265 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen [Comment] More doctors need to take the time to talk to their pregnant clients about the benefits of breastfeeding before women get to the hospital. In the hospitals doctors and nurses need to ensure immediate skin to skin contact between moms and babies unless special circumstances arise. This needs to be standard protocol instead of the exception as is current practice. APGAR scores etc. can all be preformed while the baby is on mom's chest and still attached to the umbilical cord. We should also encourage more rooming in of mom's and babies, and discourage circumcision, sugar water, bottle feeding, and pacifier usage. All of these things interfere with breastfeeding. We also need to discourage such high rates of c-sections, epidurals, and narcotic drugs during births. This can be greatly facilitated by encouraging more home births in America as most other industrial nations currently do These other countries also happen to have better maternal and infant mortality rates than us, so home birth safety is not an issue. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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