Sentences with phrase «baby friendly hospital consultant»

Baby Friendly Hospital Consultant - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center: In 2003, Glendale Memorial Hospital retained my services as its exclusive outside consultant to facilitate its successful effort to become the first hospital in Los Angeles County to be certified as Baby - Friendly by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

I have been a Baby Friendly Hospital consultant since 2003.

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Linda serves as ILCA's liaison to the World Health Organization's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and as a consultant to Baby - Friendly USA and INFACT Canada / IBFAN North America.

One lactation consultant at the «baby - friendly» hospital, which encouraged exclusive breastfeeding, told Johnson that she may have trouble producing milk because of her polycystic ovarian syndrome and recommended supplements, Johnson wrote.

Because I didn't hear about it when I was pregnant and had my babies, and if it's been around for a while obviously the hospitals that I gave birth in never made any mention of it, so I'm assuming they weren't baby - friendly back then, but after I gave birth I knew that a lactation consultant was going to go on to the, come into the room, well actually at the first child you already know the rounds, you know, what's going to happen, you know, how long you're going to be there, all that stuff.

Lactation consultants at a baby friendly hospital suggested this, and their whole career is based upon encouraging successful breastfeeding.

We welcome the recommendations that all hospitals achieve Baby Friendly Status and that women should have free access 24/7 to lactation consultants within hospital settings and also free access in the community.

Why are there so few hospitals with the WHO's Baby Friendly designation, or with trained lactation consultants on staff?

The Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland is represented on the Irish National Committee for Breastfeeding and the Advisory Committee of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in Ireland.

Turner Maffei, Cynthia, MA, IBCLC, RLC STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE BABY - FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES LLLI 2002 Educational material based on the Lactation Consultant Series unit by Cynthia Turner Maffei, MA, IBCLC, RLC.

Healthy Children faculty members and colleagues have been working alongside the Egyptian Lactation Consultant Association and the Egyptian Ministry of Health to rejuvenate the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) for over 10 years.

In 1984, Jack founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada, and has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast andhospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada, and has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast andHospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada.

Shelly Lopez Gray, a labor and delivery nurse and international board - certified lactation consultant in Texas who runs the website Adventures of a Labor Nurse, says that before the hospitals she worked at started trying to get «baby - friendly» certification, they discouraged new moms from breast - feeding.

This letter from the International Baby Food Action Network, in partnership with the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative Network of Industrialized Nations (BFHI), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League International (LLLI), World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) makes clear their insistence on clinging to old, discredited claims.

As more and more mothers get assistance from Baby - Friendly Hospitals, Lactation Consultants, and peer support groups like Breastfeeding USA and La Leche League, it's hurting the company profits.

Control group women received standard of care treatment, which in our Baby - Friendly hospital includes referrals to the lactation consultant when needed, use of a pump in the hospital, access to 3 breastfeeding classes per week, staff who are highly trained in lactation management, and a free, high - grade electric breast pump for home use if the mother's insurance does not pay for a pump.

Linda is ILCA's liaison to the World Health Organization's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and consultant to INFACT Canada / IBFAN North America.

They also said lactation consultants in baby - friendly hospitals could be more careful about how they talk about breastfeeding — and avoid making mothers feel pressured into breastfeeding or guilty if they have trouble breastfeeding.