Breastfeeding Not Supported by All Hospitals, CDC Reports
by Rudolph Yap in Nutrition on Aug 05, 2011
A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that hospitals are not making enough effort in encouraging new mothers to use exercise breastfeeding.
The agency’s Vital Signs’ August issue reported that all over the country, the majority of new mothers are giving their babies drink or food excluding breast milk when it’s not necessary in terms of medical aspects. Around fourteen percent of such institutions have a breastfeeding written policy model in place.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC director, expressed that large cultural changes within hospitals and such institutions is a requirement in order to attain improvements, emphasizing that a lot give formula routinely to every infant.
Moreover, Frieden explained that some companies supply hospitals with formulas and materials needed for special needs and preemies, especially for those infants who cannot breastfeed at no charge, given that such institutions lay formula samples within the goody bags given to new mothers.
Additionally, sooner or later breastfeeding promotion will reduce hospital costs since it will lessen the illnesses burdened to the infants. For now, hospitals are worrying that shifting away from this practice would cost them money, according to Frieden.
Another practice performed in hospitals is “rooming in” which encourages breastfeeding. Infants are allowed to stay with their mothers within 24 hours. However, just one third of the hospitals are practicing this, the report says.
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