Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding practices toward»

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.

DNPAO is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.

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Perhaps in the future, Margaret Mead's nod toward wet nursing practices will expand as breastfeeding acceptance becomes universal.

Work actively toward eliminating hospital policies and practices that discourage breastfeeding (eg, promotion of infant formula in hospitals including infant formula discharge packs and formula discount coupons, separation of mother and infant, inappropriate infant feeding images, and lack of adequate encouragement and support of breastfeeding by all health care staff).

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

And most psychologists have leaned toward specialization in their own past practices, which also discounts their «expertise» as a know - everything generalist and means that for the most part they are little better than laypersons — a few courses in graduate school do not an expert make in substance abuse, domestic violence, parenting capacity (or even what constitutes «good parenting»), child sex abuse, family systems, psychometric testing, infant attachment, personality disorders, child development, breastfeeding, sibling relationships, child education, medical decision - making, communications, marital relations, and so forth.