BFHI IN ENGLISH

                                             

                                             BFHI IN ENGLISH

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BFHI-

 

Ø In 1991 WHO and UNICEF jointly launched a global program, the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

Ø The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) was started in India in 1993. Under this, the hospital with maternity services, have to follow the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. These hospitals are assessed and certified as baby friendly (BF) if they adopt the “Ten Steps” and follow these practices.

 

10 steps of Breastfeeding-

 

Ø Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should implement these “Ten Steps” to Successful Breastfeeding :

Ø 1. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.

Ø 2. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.

Ø 3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.

Ø 4. Help mothers’ initiate breastfeeding within a half-hour of birth.

Ø  5. Show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation even if they are be separated from their infants.

Ø 6. Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically indicated.

Ø 7. Practice rooming-in that allows mothers and infants to remain together – 24 hours a day.

Ø 8. Encourage breastfeeding on demand.

Ø 9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants.

Ø 10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.