Sue,
Your breastfeeding co-ordinator might want to check the WHO document on
postpartum care as well. Skin-to-skin is the result of not intervening in
what happens physiologically. The requirement for evidence, of any level or
grade, is more rightly addressed to those who propose an intervention that
runs counter to physiology.
There is abundant evidence about bottle feeding and its negative impact on
the establishment and continuation of breastfeeding.
Again, see the WHO document, it is freely available online at the WHO
website, http://www.who.int/pub/en/ and search for 'post partum care'.
BTW, the word breastfeeding is written as one word by those who consider it
the norm. Breastfeed. Like heartbeat.
Rachel Myr, midwife and IBCLC
Norway
Sue Dennett wrote:
"A demoralised breast feeding co-ordinator came to me for advice today. She
has been asked to grade the level of evidence which support her latest 3
policies -skin to skin, hypoglycaemia and bottle feeding."
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