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MONDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 23 INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CHAT WILL DISCUSS
THESE GUIDELINES FOR BEING QUALIFIED AS A BABY FRIENDLY INSTITUTION

>TEN STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL BREAST- FEEDING
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>Every Facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants
should:
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>1.  Have a written breast-feeding policy that is routinely comunicated to
>all health care staff.
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>2.  Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.
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>3.  Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of
>breast-feeding.
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>4.  Help mothers iniciate breast-feedin within a half-hour of birth.
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>5.  Show mothers how to breast-feed, and how to maintain lactation even if
>they should be separated from their infants.
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>6.  Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless
>medically indicated.
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>7.  Practise rooming-in allow mothers and infants to remain together - 24
>hours a day.
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>8.  Encourage breast-feeding on demand.
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>9.  Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers)
>to breast-feeding infants.
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>10.Foster the establishment of breast-feeding support groups and refer
>mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.