Posts Tagged ‘hospital’

Free Breastfeeding Guide for health professionalsEl Gobierno de La Rioja returns to provide a wonderful document for all those mothers who wish to breastfeed and especially for all those professionals who want to help mothers to do so.

Just as happened a couple of years now published a guide to breastfeeding this time for professionals, with the clear objective of providing information to pediatricians and nurses who care for postpartum mothers so they can be helpful in education and resolution of problems of mothers who breastfeed their babies.

Breastfeeding rates are very high when mothers leave the hospital, however, as the weeks and especially as the months pass, the numbers are plummeting and, six months, when most mothers breastfeeding should continue to be as recommended for infants, only a quarter do.

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