Sentences with phrase «incorporate baby friendly hospital»

In this role, she worked to encourage hospitals and providers across Texas to incorporate Baby Friendly Hospital Practices.

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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.

Incorporating skin - to - skin contact into daily practice was part of UAB's journey toward becoming a Baby - Friendly birth facility, she says — a distinction the hospital was awarded in 2015.