High 5 for Mom & Baby «High 5 for Mom & Baby» encourages Kansas hospitals to adopt five evidence -
based maternity care practices that support breastfeeding success.
The focus of this new initiative will be on providing tools, materials, and resources to build a sustainable, hospital - specific training plan aimed at improving knowledge and skills on evidence -
based maternity care practices.
State health departments can use mPINC data to work together with partner agencies, organizations, policy makers, and health professionals to improve evidence -
based maternity care practices and policies at all of their hospitals statewide.
In this article, evidence -
based maternity care practices are discussed with an emphasis on the practices that increase safety for mother and baby, and what pregnant women need to know in order to have safe, healthy births is described.
Not exact matches
The delivery of
maternity care throughout the world requires highly skilled midwives whose
practice is underpinned by a sound knowledge
base, the possession of essential midwifery competencies and accountability for...
In the US, there is the Childbirth Connection, and there is the Coalition for Improving
Maternity Services (CIMS), who recommend more humane, evidence
based care practices in the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative, as well as certify hospitals as mother baby friendly
based on adherence to these recommendations.
Mothers & Babies First ™ advocates for the improvement of
maternity care through evidence -
based practices as well as empowering women in their journey to motherhood.
AIMS Ireland are an organisation committed to supporting all women in all choices in maternal health, autonomy for women, and evidence
based care practices in issues surrounding
maternity services.
This
practice is not
based on evidence and contradicts Irish National Guidelines for clinical
practice in
Maternity Care.
It passed policy after policy that supported the best evidenced -
based practices: midwifery
care, extended
maternity leave, infant massage, breastfeeding, attachment parenting.
Since its inception over two decades ago, we have seen
maternity wards transform from places historically infused with enormous influence from formula companies and default
maternity care and infant feeding
practices that undermined breastfeeding, to environments in which evidenced -
based care is provided, education is free from commercial interests, and mothers are supported in reaching their infant feeding goals.
Gentle Birth is an evidence -
based model of
maternity care, developed by practitioners worldwide, which incorporates current research on the psycho - neuro - physiology of the mother / baby pair and the consciousness of the fetus / newborn in its
care practices.
It is an evidence -
based curriculum designed to educate families in a prenatal class setting about safe and optimal infant feeding and aligns with WIC, High 5 for Mom and Baby, and the Kansas Infant Death and SIDS (KIDS) Network messages and education related to parenting and
maternity care practices
This law is, in part,
based on feeding on cue - one of the key
maternity care best
practices.
It is our goal that all health professionals who provide
maternity care in home and birth center settings have a license that is
based on national certification that includes defined competencies and standards for education and
practice.
Written for those who want to
practice according to the best evidence, assist women in making informed decisions, or advocate for
maternity care reforms, Optimal Care in Childbirth provides an in - depth analysis of the evidence basis for physiologic care as the standard of c
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The findings suggest that the implementation of
maternity care practices supportive of breastfeeding vary
based on the racial composition of the area, which means women living in areas with higher percentages of blacks might have less access to these services.
The Ten Steps outline evidence -
based maternity care policies and
practices that have been shown to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity (11,12).
The national improvements in
maternity care supportive of breastfeeding from 2007 to 2013 are substantial; however, more work is needed to ensure that all women have access to evidence -
based maternity care policies and
practices supportive of breastfeeding.