TEN STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL
BREASTFEEDING
Every facility providing maternity services and care for
newborn infants should:
1. Have a written breastfeeding 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 breastfeeding.
4. Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within a halfhour
of birth.
5. Show mothers how to breastfeed, 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 breastfeeding on demand.
9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called
dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants.
10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support
groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from
the hospital or clinic.
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