From: Global health policies that support the use of banked donor human milk: a human rights issue
Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should: |
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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 the policy. |
3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding. |
4. Help all mothers initiate breastfeeding within the first hour of birth. |
5. Show mothers how to breastfeed and maintain lactation even if separated from their infants. |
6. Give newborn infants no food or drink unless medically indicated. |
7. Practice rooming in: allow mothers and infants to stay together 24 hours a day. |
8. Encourage breastfeeding on demand. |
9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers. |
10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge. |