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Anyone notice the sting in the tail of this recommendation???? A breach of the Code endorsed by the US govt??
Karleen Gribble
Australia
Recommendations
Recommendation 1.3: Hospitals and health care providers should use maternity care practices that
empower new mothers to breastfeed, such as the Baby-Friendly hospital standards. Hospitals and
health care providers should routinely provide evidence-based maternity care that empowers parents
to make informed infant feeding decisions as active participants in their care, and improves new moth-
ers’ ability to breastfeed successfully Examples of specific practices and policies include: skin-to-skin
contact between the mother and her baby; teaching mothers how to breastfeed; and early and frequent
breastfeeding opportunities
Hospitals, health care providers, and health insurers should also help ensure that new mothers receive
proper information and support on breastfeeding when they are released from the hospital
Recommendation 1.4: Health care providers and insurance companies should provide information
to pregnant women and new mothers on breastfeeding, including the availability of educational
classes, and connect pregnant women and new mothers to breastfeeding support programs to help
them make an informed infant feeding decision.
Recommendation 1.5: Local health departments and community-based organizations, working
with health care providers, insurance companies, and others should develop peer support pro-
grams that empower pregnant women and mothers to get the help and support they need from
other mothers who have breastfed. Peer support networks should exist in all communities across
the country, allowing all new mothers to easily identify and obtain help from trained breastfeeding
peer counselors Community organizations can foster the creation of peer support networks through
expansion of programs like the WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling program They can work with local
breastfeeding coalitions to ensure existence of other peer support networks, such as La Leche League
groups or Nursing Mothers Councils They can also foster the creation of mother-to-mother support
groups in community health centers and advertise these groups, particularly as part of the hospital
discharge process
Early Head Start (EHS) programs that enroll pregnant women, including pregnant teenagers, can also
support community breastfeeding networks EHS can provide home visits and reach out to pregnant
and breastfeeding mothers to encourage and support breastfeeding, including by providing profes-
sional and peer opportunities to disseminate information and provide on-going support Funding for
evidence-based home visitation programs in the recently-enacted Affordable Care Act96 will comple-
ment this program
Private companies, including those that market baby products, can also help support and promote
these types of community supports for mothers
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