World Health Organisation Policy on breastfeeding

1. Have a breast feeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.
2. Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement this policy.
3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breast feeding.
4. Help mothers initiate breast feeding within half and hour of birth
5. Show mothers how to breast feed and how to maintain lactation even if they are separated from their infants.
6. Give newborn  infants no food or drink other than breast milk unless medically indicated (discussed in (very short!) section on “who cant breastfeed”.)
7. Practise “rooming in”: allow mothers and infants to stay together 24 hours a day.
8. Encourage breast feeding on demand.
9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers to breast feeding infants.
10. Foster the establishment of breast feeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from hospital or clinic."

1. Mother's milk, direct from her breast.
2. Mother's milk, expressed and drunk from a bottle,
3. Breastmilk from any other woman.
4. Formula.

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