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Breastfeeding Friendly Policies and Toolkits PDF Print E-mail

Here are resources to help you advocate in your community, job or local hospitals

  • Here is a toolkit for childcare centers to be breastfeeding friendly

http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/physicalactivity/pdf_files/BreastfeedingFriendlyChildCareCenters.pdf

  • California Department of Health main page of Breastfeeding Model Policy Recommendations

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/healthyliving/childfamily/Pages/MainPageofBreastfeedingToolkit.aspx

  • WHO policy on the International Code of Marketing Breast Milk Substitutes

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/code_english.pdf

  • The Surgeon General's "Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding"

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/breastfeeding/index.html

  • On March 31, 2010 the Joint Commission Pregnancy and Related Conditions core measure set was retired and replaced with a new Perinatal Care core measure set that has much stronger recommendations and requirements for breastfeeding. You can download the toolkit and learn more about it here

http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/HealthCareSystem/HospitalMaternityCenterPractices/ToolkitImplementingTJCCoreMeasure/tabid/184/Default.aspx

  • Need to convince your employer that supporting our employees to breastfeed is good business. Check out the Health and Human Services Department toolkit The Business Case for Breastfeeding.”The Business Case for Breastfeeding is a comprehensive program designed to educate employers about the value of supporting breastfeeding employees in the workplace. The program highlights how such support contributes to the success of the entire business and offers tools to help employers provide worksite lactation support and privacy for breastfeeding mothers to express milk.”

http://www.womenshealth.gov/breastfeeding/government-programs/business-case-for-breastfeeding/

 

 
 
Model Employee Lactation Policy PDF Print E-mail


Employee lactation policy/procedures

The development of an employee lactation policy/procedure is to ensure the ability for women to breastfeed/ breast pump in the workplace in accordance with federal law. For more information about the economic benefit for the employer in supporting breastfeeding go to

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/healthyliving/childfamily/Pages/BusinessCaseforBreastfeeding.aspx

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Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative PDF Print E-mail

Get informed about the International Movement to Create Hospitals that encourage and support breastfeeding


The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding. The BFHI assists hospitals in giving mothers the information, confidence, and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies or feeding formula safely, and gives special recognition to hospitals that have done so.

Baby-Friendly USA is the national authority for the BFHI in the United States.

In 1992, the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition received a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to convene an Expert Work Group to examine the criteria and assessment process of the global BFHI. Wellstart International, which is located in San Diego, California, developed the evaluation materials to support the assessment process. The U.S. Committee for UNICEF supported these efforts financially and with “in kind” services. In January of 1997, the U. S. Committee for UNICEF asked the Healthy Children Project, Inc. to accept responsibility for the initiative and form Baby-Friendly USA as the non-profit organization which now implements the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the United States

The website for Baby Friendly USA is http://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/

 

The Ten Steps To Successful Breastfeeding

The BFHI promotes, protects, and supports breastfeeding through The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for Hospitals, as outlined by UNICEF/WHO. The steps for the United States are:

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Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.

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Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.

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Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.

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Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth.

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Show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if they are separated from their infants.

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Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically indicated.

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Practice “rooming in”-- allow mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day.

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Encourage breastfeeding on demand.

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Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants.

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Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic