Her work under the grant focused on helping local hospitals begin the lengthy process towards
achieving Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative status.
Not exact matches
More than 20,000
hospitals world - wide have
achieved Baby Friendly status.
We welcome the recommendations that all
hospitals achieve Baby Friendly Status and that women should have free access 24/7 to lactation consultants within
hospital settings and also free access in the community.
In areas where
hospitals have
achieved baby -
friendly status, more mothers are breastfeeding their infants, and child health improves as a consequence.
Our aim is to increase this to 100 % by 2015 and currently in Scotland 81.4 % of maternity
hospitals have
achieved Baby Friendly accreditation.
Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between
Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates
achieved in Brazilian
hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the
Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based inter
Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the
Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving
hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based inter
hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the
Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in
hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based inter
hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the
hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based inter
hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a
hospital - based inter
hospital - based intervention.
Florida now has 11
Baby Friendly Hospitals with the most recent one
achieving designation earlier this year.
13
hospitals in Indian Country Since the Indian Health Service (IHS) launched its
Baby -
Friendly hospital effort in 2011, all 13 Federal IHS
hospitals have
achieved Baby -
Friendly status.
The report also has a barometer that measures
baby -
friendly hospitals despite the importance of this 25 year initiative, only 42 countries have
achieved baby friendly status in their
hospitals and only half of the
hospitals in these countries are classified as being truly «
baby friendly».
In a national survey published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2006, researchers found that paying for formula was one of the top three barriers preventing
hospitals from
achieving the
baby -
friendly status.
[1] Other studies confirm that evidence - based maternity practices, including «
Baby -
Friendly»
hospital standards, improve mothers» chances of
achieving their breastfeeding goals.
In an effort towards
achieving better breast feeding practices, UNICEF and WHO launched the
baby friendly hospital initiative in 1991 to ensure that all maternity facilities support mothers in making the best choice about feeding.
A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a
hospital based protocol (similar to the
baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol
achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in
hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the
baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.
Government and public health agencies can help by working with
hospitals to
achieve Baby -
Friendly designation.
Instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to recommend that all
hospitals achieve the
Baby -
Friendly designation.
§ § § Several CDC efforts are underway to continue supporting improvements in maternity care, including continuation of the mPINC survey, the EMPower breastfeeding project ¶ ¶ ¶ to support up to 100
hospitals in
achieving Baby -
Friendly designation, and continued support of state health departments to support breastfeeding initiatives.
in Indian Country campaign, the Indian Health Service committed to
achieving Baby -
Friendly designation for all 13 of its federal maternity
hospitals, a goal that was recently
achieved.
Will all UK governments require and fund NHS trusts and boards to
achieve and maintain Unicef
Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation in
hospitals and communities?
The annual EMPower Learning Collaborative Meetings convene
hospitals across the initiative to build upon the excellent work that has been
achieved in implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding towards
Baby -
Friendly designation.