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Health and Human Development - Global health: promoting breastfeeding
Promoting breastfeeding
The benefits of breastfeeding have been promoted through a variety of
activities funded by the Commonwealth Government. WHO [1]and UNICEF [2]
launched the baby friendly hospital initiative in 1991 in an attempt to
promote the Ten Steps To Successful Breastfeeding.
The steps included practices such as educating all mothers on the
advantages of breast milk, ensuring that newborn babies were kept in the
same room as their mothers, not using feeding bottles and assisting mothers
with any difficulties they may experience when attempting to breastfeed.
They envisaged that this practice would be routine in all hospitals
throughout the world by 1995.
WHO and UNICEF also developed a Code of Marketing Of Breastfeeding
Substitutes as part of this strategy.
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Breastfeeding helps both mothers and babies stay healthy. The U.S. Surgeon General and most experts recommend that babies be fed only breast milk for the first six months and continue to be fed breast milk until one year of age, or longer, as complementary foods are introduced. Breastfeeding is the first step to a healthy life. It provides advantages to babies that cannot be matched by any other form of feeding and strengthens the bond between mother and baby. Breast milk helps protect a baby from colds, diarrhea, and respiratory and ear infections. Breast milk also reduces the risk of allergies, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and obesity. Breastfeeding has economic advantages. Breastfeeding reduces or eliminates the cost of formula for families and because breastfed babies and their mothers tend to be healthier, families, businesses and health insurers also save money.
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding are: 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 half-hour 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.Practice 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.Faster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.
What are the ten steps of successful breastfeeding?
Have been promoted through a variety of activities funded by the common wealth government.
What if oxytocin is not given to mothers after child birth...what will occur.
Breast feeding is the only possible way to keep child healthy because breast milk is safe and clean
There is a policy to ensure adequate nutrition of infants through breastfeeding.