Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding first published in a joint whounicef statement in 1989 protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding. Try to have some attractive posters or material about breastfeeding in. Baby and mother friendly hospital programme ministry of health, mexico pdf, 86k handout 4. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding nutrition unicef. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding for settings with high hiv prevalence note. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or birth center. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy. Health professionals who can help with breastfeeding, and how to ind support by phone. Course for decisionmakers 425 effect of delivery room practices on early breastfeeding refers to slide 4. Comply fully with the international code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes and relevant world health assembly resolutions 1b. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding form the basis of baby friendly hospital initiative.
We believe that breastfeeding ensures the best possible health, development, and psychosocial outcomes for your baby. May 20, 20 the ten steps to successful breastfeeding are maternity practices proven to support successful achievement of exclusive breastfeeding. The time is right florida breastfeeding coalition the time is right cathy carothers page 5 helping moms make an informed decisionnot just talking about the benefits of breastfeeding, but showing her how to work it into her life. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding baby friendly. The transparencies are also reproduced as the first handout for this session, with 6. Overall, our results show that provision of training in the ten steps to successful breastfeeding for health professionals is an effective strategy to enhance the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, even in settings with high breastfeeding initiation such as dr congo. The percentage of us hospitals implementing a majority of the ten steps. New york state ten steps to a breastfeeding friendly practice create a breastfeeding friendly office 1. Launched in 1991 by the world health organization who and the united nations childrens fund unicef with the goal of accelerating the broadscale implementation of the ten steps to successful breastfeeding and the international code of marketing breastmilk substitutes, babyfriendly practices are the standard of care in more than 570. All posters including each step, breastfeeding welcome and 10 steps to successful breastfeeding pdf 2. New york state ten steps to a breastfeeding friendly practice.
Spanish handouts lactation education resources results. Hospital actions affect breastfeeding vitalsigns cdc. Who and unicef launched the babyfriendly hospital initiative bfhi to help motivate facilities providing maternity and. The new hampshire ten steps to successful breastfeeding. Overcoming barriers to implementing the ten steps to successful breastfeeding mchb 030232p 4 the ten steps worldwide in many countries around the world, thousands of hospitals and birthing centers have already fully implemented the ten steps to successful breastfeeding and received babyfriendly hospital. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding unicefwho baby. Hospital practices in the first hours and days after birth make the difference in whether and how long babies are breastfed. Facilitate immediate and uninterrupted skintoskin contact and support mothers to initiate breastfeeding as soon as possible after birth. It is intended to support a mothers choice to breastfeed and to help her establish and achieve her breastfeeding. Have a written infant feeding policy that is routinely communicated to staff and parents. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding critical management procedures. Academy of breast feeding medicine policies and protocols. Baby friendly hospital journey ten steps to successful breastfeeding.
The cdc guide to strategies to support breastfeeding. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding is a proven approach to support breastfeeding in maternity settings. Breastfeeding is the preferred method of newborn and infant feeding. Lactation education resources provides online lactation courses following the iblce blueprint designed to prepare students to sit for the iblce exam to achieve certification or recertification as lactation consultants. Does the child care center have a designated individual or m m. The transparencies are also reproduced as the first handout for this session, with 6 transparencies to a page. Implementing the ten steps for successful breastfeeding in. Nys ten steps to a successful breastfeeding friendly. Train all staff to promote, support and protect breastfeeding and breastfeeding moms.
The ten steps to successful breastfeeding form the basis of the babyfriendly hospital initiative, a worldwide breastfeeding quality. Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement this policy. Inform pregnant women about the new york state ten steps to successful breastfeeding and how to advocate for breastfeeding friendly maternity care. Who has called upon all facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the ten steps. The scientific basis for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding pdf, 249k handout 4. Ten practices called the ten steps to successful breastfeeding were defined with suggested actions and evaluation question in 1989. Ten steps to breastfeeding friendly child care centers.
Develop, implement and maintain a written breastfeeding friendly office policy. Breastfeeding protects your baby from the risks of an unclean water. Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding. New york state ten steps to a breastfeeding friendly.
The hospital must pass each of the ten steps and be evaluated by an external inspection team. The bfhi is embodied in the ten steps to successful breastfeeding, also called the global criteria, and the. Breastfeeding resources ten steps to successful breastfeeding. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding provide a supportive pathway enabling women to achieve their breastfeeding intentions and guiding the training of healthcare workers in breastfeeding support. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding, the bfhi manager will email the. This curriculum was developed for use in the prenatal setting. Other training materials flipchart video poster with the ten steps references albernaz e, giugliani erj, victora cg. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding are the foundation of the whounicef baby friendly hospital initiative bfhi. A comprehensive, evidence based infant feeding policy, incorporating the 10 steps to.
Ten steps to successful breastfeeding revised 2018 who and unicef launched the babyfriendly hospital initiative bfhi to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. Learn more about how healthcare providers implemented the ten steps as they share their strategies for success on the pathway to improvement. Who ten steps to successful breastfeeding revised 2018. When these practices are implemented by hospitals they have been shown to have a direct impact on breastfeeding. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding form the basis of the pennsylvania keystone 10 initiative, a statewide breastfeeding quality improvement project created by the department of health and designed to engage pennsylvania hospitals and birth centers with the ultimate goal of increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff. These interventions and programs also are designed to meet many of the health objectives set forth in healthy people 2020. Some hivrelated content is included in the basic session 4, since it is important to consider the effects of the epidemic in all settings. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding texas 10 step. The cdc guide to strategies to support breastfeeding mothers. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding world health organization.
Who and unicef launched the babyfriendly hospital initiative bfhi to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding are endorsed by the american academy of pediatrics and the american academy of family physicians. They summarize the maternity practices necessary to support breastfeeding. This award has been granted to 167 hospitals in the united states and only ten in the commonwealth of massachusetts. Implementing the ten steps for successful breastfeeding in hospitals serving lowwealth patients article pdf available in american journal of public health 10212 october 2012 with 210 reads. The whounicef babyfriendly hospital initiative is the global standard for hospital care to support breastfeeding, with the ten steps to successful breastfeeding at its core. Even if your hospital isnt baby friendly this task force fact sheet gives you information on both the 10 steps to becoming a baby friendly hospital as well as information for moms on how to breastfeed successfully. Strategies to support breastfeeding mothers and babies, provides information on interventions and programs that address many of the steps called for by the u. The scientific basis for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. Discuss the importance and management of breastfeeding with pregnant women and their families. Constraints to implementation of the 10 steps to successful. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from hospital or clinic.
You may want to save an electronic copy of this handout, as hyperlinks for each of the resources are included, for future reference or to pass on to coworkers or families. The initiative developed the following ten steps to successful breastfeeding to promote optimal clinical care for new mothers and their infants. Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infant. Study authors bw and ah envisioned the new hampshire ten steps to successful breastfeeding collaborative as a qi program to help new hampshire birthing hospitals achieve bfhi designation or, if they were not interested in designation, to increase achievement of the ten steps and improve rates of any and exclusive inhospital breastfeeding. Step 1 have a written policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff 10. The guide is titled ten steps to successful breastfeeding and underpins the babyfriendly hospital initiative that who and unicef published in 1991. Implementing the ten steps to successful breastfeeding in. Support mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding and manage common difficulties. Health care facilities play a vital role in the establishment of breastfeeding. Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants. Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding 1998. Check out the latest breastfeeding resource from the texas ten step program.
Aap ten steps to support parents choice to breastfeed. Drink other beverages such as lowfat milk or 100% juice as part of your daily food checklist. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding the bfhi package describes the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding that must be practised and assessed in order for a hospital to be accredited as a baby friendly hospital. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding. The innocenti declaration in 1990 called upon the world to fully implement the ten steps in all maternity facilities worldwide. Unicef and the world health organization who, along with usaid and swedish international development agency sida, launched a comprehensive approach to protect, promote and support breastfeeding with the 1990 innocenti meeting and declaration.
Interspersed throughout are assessments that measure your understanding of the subject matter as you move through the course. The ten steps summarize a package of policies and procedures that facilities providing maternity and newborn services should implement to support breastfeeding. Encourage all pregnant women to attend prenatal group breastfeeding education or counseling. Pdf implementing the ten steps for successful breastfeeding. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding what is the baby friendly. Breastfeeding handouts, various topics, english and spanish, texas department of state health services. Ten valuable tips for successful breastfeeding canada. Order these parent handouts printed in english on one side, in spanish on the other in quantity from. Nys ten steps to a successful breastfeeding friendly practice. They also are the basis for the whounicef babyfriendly hospital initiative bfhi. Concerns list concerns, problems or challenges your maternity services face in implementing this step solutions list possible solutions to each of the concerns, including both actions that have been successful and other approaches you. The ten steps summarize a package of policies and procedures that facilities providing maternity. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding are the foundation of the. The ten steps were released in 1989 as the whounicef joint statement on the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding.
Your need for fluids increases while you are breastfeeding. Why breastfeeding policy requires a course of action and provides guidance helps establish consistent care for mothers and babies provides a standard that can be evaluate 11. Successful breastfeeding has been shown to improve overall. Staff receive breastfeeding training pdf 273kb step3. National policy on infant and young child feeding for health facilities pdf, 15k handout 4. Aap ten steps to support parents choice to breastfeed their baby. Implementation of the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. In support of this commitment, we 3 2 ten steps to support parents choice to breastfeed their.
Facilities go through a process of selfassessment of compliance with the ten steps to successful breastfeeding and then follow quality improvement methods, using small tests of change, to modify their policies and procedures to improve compliance. Who and unicef launched the baby friendly hospital initiative bfhi to help motivate facilities providing maternity and. Anternatal breastfeeding education antenatal class brochure bf bookletssc. Ten steps to successful breastfeeding programme to promote. First published in a joint whounicef statement in 1989.
This study explores implementation of these steps in hospitals that serve predominantly low wealth populations. Order these parent handouts printed in english on one side. This alternate session 4 has been prepared for use in settings with high hiv prevalence. Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding, the special role of maternity.
There is substantial evidence that implementing the ten steps significantly improves breastfeeding rates. Summary the who 10 steps to successful breastfeeding 1989 and the interpretation for canadian practice 2011 step 1 who have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding videos feature stories from the field. Effect of delivery room routines on success of first breastfeed. Describe the scientific basis for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. The scientific basis for the ten steps to successful. Jun 04, 2019 launched in 1991 by the world health organization who and the united nations childrens fund unicef with the goal of accelerating the broadscale implementation of the ten steps to successful breastfeeding and the international code of marketing breastmilk substitutes, babyfriendly practices are the standard of care in more than 570.
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