Sentences with phrase «formula by hospital staffs»

The hospitals are in states with the lowest breast - feeding rates and highest rates of supplementation with formula by hospital staffs.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, our goal is to support a mother in whatever decision she makes when it comes to nursing her baby and this initiative specifically is designed to support a mother who decides that she wants to breast - feed by asking participating hospital staff to respect her and refrain from automatically supplementing her baby with formula (unless it becomes medically necessary or the mother changes her mind).

As a breastfeeding counselor, I deal with the aftermath of poor hospital policy (to be fair I don't always hear the success stories) and everything the baby has been «given» by the hospital staff including unnecessary formula, pacifiers, denial of access to his mother, and poor breastfeeding advice.

Mothers who request formula won't get turned down by hospital staff, but may have to pay the price later.

But it is exponentially cheaper than infant formula, and impoverished mothers who have become convinced that their breastmilk is not good enough for their child (hospital staff are frequently influenced by infant formula companies) often end up buying powdered milk instead of formula for their baby because it is all they can afford.

Ask questions... many times what you will find is that they were not supported by their doctors or the staff in the hospital, encouraged to supplement early on for reasons unknown to them, or that they were just worried that their babies were not as «chubby» as other formula fed babies that they saw.

Work actively toward eliminating hospital policies and practices that discourage breastfeeding (eg, promotion of infant formula in hospitals including infant formula discharge packs and formula discount coupons, separation of mother and infant, inappropriate infant feeding images, and lack of adequate encouragement and support of breastfeeding by all health care staff).