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Introduction
The Ten Steps to Successful
Breastfeeding...
The “Ten Steps to
Successful Breastfeeding” are the foundation of
the WHO/
UNICEF
Baby
Friendly
Hospital
Initiative (BFHI). They summarize the maternity
practices necessary to support
breastfeeding.
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Every facility providing maternity
services and care for newborn infants
should:
- Have a written
breastfeeding policy that is routinely
communicated to all health care staff.
- Train all health care staff
in skills necessary to implement this policy.
- Inform all pregnant women
about the benefits and management of
breastfeeding.
- Help mothers initiate
breastfeeding within half an hour of birth.
- Show mothers how to
breastfeed, and how to maintain lactation even
if they should be separated from their infants.
- Give newborn infants no
food or drink other than breast milk, unless
medically indicated.
- Practise rooming-in - that
is, allow mothers and infants to remain together
- 24 hours a day.
- Encourage breastfeeding on
demand.
- Give no artificial teats or
pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to
breastfeeding infants.
- Foster the establishment of
breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers
to them on discharge from the hospital or
clinic.
Source: Protecting,
Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: The
Special Role of Maternity Services, a joint
WHO/UNICEF statement published by the World
Health Organization, Geneva,
1989
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