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Re: Breastfeeding in the States From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Sat Feb 4 00:52:35 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: FRI Preeclampsia Solved" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: FRI Preeclampsia Solved" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States" Reply: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States" There actually are laws against public breastfeeding in some states, though there are movements afoot to overturn them where they still exist. Actually, I'm not sure that there are laws specifically prohibiting breastfeeding, but public indecency laws are frequently used to discourage public breastfeeding, and laws are being passed to specifically forbid arresting women for breastfeeding in public. Breastfeeding rates are definitley a regional and cultural thing around here. I believe that overall it's probably around 25% once you eliminate the women who leave the hospital breastfeeding and then quickly abandon it (like the next day). The last place I saw a woman breastfeeding in public was in the London Transport Museum. The woman was sitting on the back steps of one of the old double-decker busses they have on display there. I think both the UK and US are way behind Scandinavia when it comes to breastfeeding rates. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Fri, 3 Feb 2006, D. Ashley Hill wrote: > >At Fri, 3 Feb 2006, GA12L@aol.com wrote: >> >>Just a quickie (ho hum). What are breastfeeding rates in the USA like? > >My perception (note the absence of data) is that breastfeeding rates >vary by region. In New Orleans I delivered hundreds of mostly indigent >babies my intern year and maybe one mom breastfed. Patients told me it >was "low class" to breastfeed. When I returned to Tampa the next year, >about 85% of our moms breastfed. In my private practice in Orlando, >probably 90% of women breastfeed. I don't know if there are any >state-level restrictions on breastfeeding location, frequency, or age of >the child, but I doubt it. (My mom knew a colleague who was >breastfeeding her 8 year-old healthy child). > >Ashley > >-- >D. Ashley Hill, MD >Associate Director >Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology >Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency > and Loch Haven Ob/Gyn Group >Orlando, Florida > Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: FRI Preeclampsia Solved" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: FRI Preeclampsia Solved" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States" Reply: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Breastfeeding in the States"

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