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[ID] 805 [Interest Areas] Breastfeeding Coalition Representative Concerned Citizen Lactation Professional Nonprofit Organization [Comment] As an IBCLC, my clients report that they had to repeatedly request lactation help during their hospital stays; breast pumps were difficult to obtain and were not properly explained; and the lactation care that they did happen to receive was almost always rushed, poorly timed, and often more confusing to the mom than helpful. The moms are being taught very bad technique that results in painful latch, poor milk transfer, low weight gain, low milk supply, formula supplementation, and high breastfeeding failure. I believe that this is the main reason that our breastfeeding initiation rate is high, but most of those couplets wean in the first few weeks. [Topic] 
Access to Lactation Care and Support
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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