Describe five steps that hospitals can follow to encourage successful breastfeeding
Baby-Friendly Hospitals: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
To promote breastfeeding, every maternity facility should:
• Develop a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.
• Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement the breastfeeding policy.
• Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.
• Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within 1/2 hour of birth.
• Show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if they need to be separated from their infants.
• Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated.
• Practice rooming-in, allowing mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day.
• Encourage breastfeeding on demand.
• Give no artificial nipples or pacifiers to breastfeeding infants.*
• Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them at discharge from the facility.
*Compared with nonusers, infants who use pacifiers breastfeed less frequently and stop breastfeeding at a younger age.
SOURCE: United Nations Children's Fund and World Health Organization.
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