Critical management procedures: | |
 1a | Comply fully with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and relevant World Health Assembly resolutions |
 1b | Have a written infant feeding policy that is routinely communicated to staff and parents |
 1c | Establish ongoing monitoring and data-management systems |
 2 | Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding |
Key clinical practices | |
 3 | Discuss the importance and management of breastfeeding with pregnant women and their families |
 4 | Facilitate immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and support mothers to initiate breastfeeding as soon as possible after birth |
 5 | Support mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding and manage common difficulties |
 6 | Do not provide breastfed newborns any food or fluids other than breast milk, unless medically indicated |
 7 | Enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practice rooming-in 24 h a day |
 8 | Support mothers to recognise and respond to their infants’ cues for feeding |
 9 | Counsel mothers on the use and risks of feeding bottles, teats and pacifiers |
 10 | Coordinate discharge so that parents and their infants have timely access to ongoing support and care |