Advocate fights to re-open breastfeeding clinic (Canadian Jewish News)

A local mother who says a world-renowned expert on breastfeeding taught one of her children how to eat is fighting to re-open one of his Toronto-area clinics that was closed recently.

Last month, North York General Hospital shut down a clinic run by Dr. Jack Newman, a Toronto pediatrician who each year helps more than 1,800 mothers learn how to feed their babies.

The facility was the last in a number of local hospital-based clinics run by Newman. Another one at St. Michael’s Hospital was closed last spring.

But Thornhill social worker and mother of three Esther Goldstein said Newman provides a unique and vital service for moms who have been discharged from hospital and are tempted to turn to formula if they run into challenges in breastfeeding their newborns.



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