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Ten steps to successful breast-feeding

Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should follow these ten steps to successful breast-feeding

  1. Have a written breast-feeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.
  2. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.
  3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breast-feeding.
  4. Help mothers initiate breast-feeding within a half-hour of birth.
  5. Show mothers how to breast-feed, and how to maintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants.
  6. Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated.
  7. Practise rooming-in – allow mothers and infants to remain together – 24 hours a day.
  8. Encourage breast-feeding on demand.
  9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to breast-feeding infants.
  10. Foster the establishment of breast-feeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.

www.who.int/dsa/cat98/z10steps.htm


[…] Breastfeeding is a major determinant of infant health. There is ample evidence on the advantages of breastfeeding for child health and development and for the prevention of child mortality and morbidity. Infants who are exclusively breastfed (that is, receiving only breastmilk and no other food or drink) for at least 4 months have significantly less gastrointestinal and respiratory illness including ear infections and asthma, than those who are not breastfed. Breastfeeding is particularly important for the preterm and/or low birth weight infant. WHO recommends that infants should be exclusively breastfed on demand from birth for at least 4 and, if possible, 6 months of age and should continue to be breastfed together with adequate complementary food until the age of 2 years or beyond. Women who are unable to breastfeed on demand are at increased risk of stopping breastfeeding prematurely. […]

www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/Health_aspects_of_maternity_leave.en.html


UNICEF
[…] Through mother support groups and individual counselling provides mothers with specific information and support on preparing to breast-feed, managing breast-feeding and integrating breast-feeding into their family lifestyle. Convenes meetings and seminars for health care providers and an annual seminar for physicians. A Health Advisory Council provides advice, and physicians may serve as medical associates. Breast-feeding resource centres bring the organization's publications to health care providers and mothers where there are no member groups. Maintains the Centre for Breastfeeding Information, which contains the largest collection of breast-feeding literature in the world. […]

www.who.int/ina-ngo/ngo/ngo142.htm

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