Experience of a new mum

doi:10.1136/bmj.b857

Published 3 March 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b857
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b857

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Improving breast feeding rates

Experience of a new mum

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My husband and I dutifully went to NHS antenatal classes. Thesession on feeding began: "We all know breast is best." Thenwe were shocked to hear the midwife complain about how she wasn’tallowed to teach us about bottle feeding any more and then notmention breast feeding again and promote bottle feeding anyway.On moving to a new area, I was asked by a health visitor whatformula milk I gave our baby, and when he was upset after his8 week immunisations the practice nurse said soothingly: "Givehim a bottle to calm him down."

How can we expect a team of peer supporters to succeed in increasingbreastfeeding rates¹ when the professional multidisciplinaryteam (doctors not excluded) doesn’t consistently expectand reinforce breast milk as the norm?

Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b857

Eleanor J Midgley, FY2 doctor¹

¹ Milton Keynes General Hospital, Milton Keynes MK6 5LD

eleanor.midgley@yahoo.co.uk

Competing interests: None declared.

MacArthur C, Jolly K, Ingram L, Freemantle N, Dennis C-L, Hamburger R, et al. Antenatal peer support workers and initiation of breast feeding: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2009;338:b131. (30 January.)[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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