1.a) Comply with the International Code of
Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and relevant World Health Assembly
Resolutions.
1.b) Have a written Infant Feeding Policy
that is routinely communicated to all staff, pregnant women/persons and
parents.
1.c) Establish ongoing
BFI monitoring and data-management systems.
2. Ensure that staff have the
competencies (knowledge, attitudes and skills) necessary to support
mothers/birthing parents to meet their infant feeding goals.
3. Discuss the importance and process
of breastfeeding with pregnant women/persons and their families.
4. Facilitate immediate and
uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact at birth. Support mothers/birthing parents
to respond to the infant’s cues to initiate breastfeeding as soon as possible
after birth.
5. Support mothers/parents to initiate
and maintain breastfeeding and manage common difficulties.
6. Support mothers/parents to
exclusively breastfeed for the first six months, unless supplements are
medically indicated.
7. Promote and
support mother-infant togetherness.
8. Encourage responsive, cue-based
feeding for infants. Encourage sustained breastfeeding beyond six months with
appropriate introduction of complementary foods.
9. Discuss the use
and effects of feeding bottles, artificial nipples and pacifiers with parents.
10. Provide a seamless transition between
the services provided by the hospital, community health services and
peer-support programs.
