A few days ago Lola told us great news, Rey Juan Carlos University will teach the first master's degree on breastfeeding. It is a curriculum that will allow health professionals who attend it (doctors, nurses and / or midwives) to have the most advanced knowledge in reference to breastfeeding.
Now, the fact that the master is believed makes me doubt, And the students who don't take it? And with students I mean those of medicine, pediatrics, nursing, etc., which have among their competencies the promotion of breastfeeding, the prevention of derived problems and the resolution of those problems, if they occur, but whose studies seem to be far from being able to make them fulfill those competencies.
Good news for those who should recycle
I imagine everyone who in the race received a few hours of training in breastfeeding and learned that complementary feeding began at 3 months, already with orange juice, and I put my hands to my head thinking about all professionals who have not bothered to update.
They are those who give the aforementioned advice sheets capable of ending the breastfeeding of a woman in a heartbeat, if the woman decides to follow the recommendations, or they are the ones who receive doubts or problems from women and say nonsense.
AdvertisingFor them, for all of them, this master's degree is a great opportunity to receive training in this regard. That eye, to update a little is not necessary, if in fact it is enough to know that you do not know, that it is much better than to believe that you know (many lactations would go ahead just by avoiding erroneous advice). There are great books that talk about breastfeeding, there are congresses and there are courses, such as breastfeeding consultants that I did. But of course, you have to have interest and desire to go and be clear that these things have to be paid, I understand that it is an effort, but there are professionals that if they do not pay the congresses, they do not go to them.
But there is still a lot left in the Spanish Universities
Well, that, that the master's degree is great news and that it should soon begin to be taught in many more state universities so that professionals are gradually updating, but I think that there is still a lot.
We cannot let advanced knowledge in breastfeeding stay in the master's courses or in the interest of mothers who have been trained to respond to those who did not receive it where they should have received it.
A breastfeeding woman should have the information and should always receive more or less even advice. It cannot be that the nurse says one thing, the pediatrician another and finally has to go to a breastfeeding group to listen to other mothers to tell her what the matter really is. It can't be, because not all of them end there. Many stay at the pediatrician and the nurse, watching as their breastfeeding is going to bite.
As a nurse, every year I see students who come to practice pediatrics of the nursing degree. It is clear that they receive much more training in breastfeeding than I received, but every year they put all (usually girls) the same astonished face when I start explaining things about braces, positions, frequency of shots, etc. and that I am not an expert, but they are still far from the minimum that would be acceptable for a nurse.
Healthcare professionals should get out of the race having received many hours of breastfeeding training. We are talking about the unique feeding of a baby up to 6 months, an act whose absence can result in some damages for babies and women and in high expenses in our health system and, for now, does not reach 40% percentage of women that achieves that recommendation.
More breastfeeding everywhere
Well, that, nurses, doctors and midwives they have to arrive on the first day of work knowing a lot about breastfeeding. But not only those who dedicate themselves to pediatrics, but also those who dedicate themselves to adults, because it is the adult woman who breastfeeds.
That a woman can go to the doctor because her chest hurts and does not receive the indication to take an antibiotic and stop breastfeeding the baby, without anyone analyzing the milk. Let him go for anything and receive a "how are you breastfeeding, I can not prescribe it", that they do not do compatible tests for thinking that they are not or that they do not say that "woman, you are breastfeeding a child that is old, leave it now and so I can treat you. "
It is necessary, very necessary, because the more updated people make up the environment of a woman who breastfeeds the easier it will be for more mothers to breastfeed. We know that 93% of women who stop breastfeeding would rather not have done so. Well, sure many of them did it for a wrong medical advice.
