Step 3 - Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should: Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.

If the hospital has an affiliated antenatal clinic or antenatal ward...breastfeeding counseling [should be] given to most pregnant women using those services...The antenatal discussion should cover the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for the first 4-6 months, the benefits of breastfeeding, and basic breastfeeding management...Pregnant women of 32 weeks or more gestation...should confirm that the benefits of breastfeeding have been discussed with them...[including] at least two of the following benefits: Nutritional, protective, bonding, health benefits to the mother...and that they have received no group education on the use of infant formula. They should be able to describe at least two of the following breastfeeding management topics: importance of rooming-in, importance of feeding on demand, how to assure enough milk, and positioning and attachment.

The third step is to have sessions with pregnant women to motivate them for breastfeeding and to remove all their doubts.

More info
http://tensteps.org/step-3-successful-breastfeeding.shtml

Benefits of Breastfeeding
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding.shtml

Benefits for Infant
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-for-the-infant.shtml

Benefits for Mother
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-for-the-mother.shtml

Benefits for the Family
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-for-the-family.shtml

Benefits for the Hospital
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-for-the-hospital.shtml

Benefits for the Environment & Society
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-for-the-environment-society.shtml

Other Benefits
http://tensteps.org/benefits-of-breastfeeding-other.shtml

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Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding - Video Series

Babies who are breastfed are generally healthier and achieve optimal growth and development compared to those who are fed formula milk.

If the vast majority of babies were exclusively fed breastmilk in their first six months of life -- meaning only breastmilk and no other liquids or solids, not even water -- it is estimated that the lives of at least 1.2 million children would be saved every year. If children continue to be breastfed up to two years and beyond, the health and development of millions of children would be greatly improved.

This video series aims to raise awareness, encourage early adoption, promote training of health care staff, and build capacity for, and to stimulate dialogue about, breastfeeding and its impact on the public, in a range of community and public contexts in low- and middle-income countries. Our goal is to have these ten steps in every facility providing maternal services and care for newborn infants.

Videos, presentations, research, evidence, papers, training and counselling materials, tools, and many other related and supporting resources are available.

Visit us on-line at
http://tensteps.org
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