Hospitals Need to Teach Women to Breastfeed

Nov 14, 2013 4:45 am - by Malika Shah Training nurses and hospital staff to teach breastfeeding techniques in the hours after birth could spare women a huge amount of frustration, says Malika Shah. Sharefacebooktwittergoogle plusemailprint0 The health and cost saving benefits of breastfeeding are so widely known that nearly 80 percent of pregnant American women enter hospitals to give birth intending to breastfeed their newborns. Despite this intent, numbers trickle off to less than a quarter of this number breastfeeding just six months later. It’s common to blame short maternity leaves, workplace constraints and lack of community support for this decline. Just last week, a Pennsylvania...