Resiliency of Program Components in Nutrition and Breastfeeding by Maida Lynn N. Jaguit, RN, MM, PhD

1. RESILIENCY OF PROGRAM
COMPONENTS IN NUTRITION AND
BREASTFEEDING
BY MAIDA LYNN N. JAGUIT,RN,MM,PHD

2. REPUBLIC ACT 10028
AN ACT EXPANDING THE PROMOTION OF BREASTFEEDING,
AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7600,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “AN ACT PROVIDING INCENTIVES
TO ALL GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSTITUTIONS
WITH ROOMING-IN AND BREASTFEEDING PRACTICES AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
Legal Provisions
This Act shall be known as the “Expanded
Breastfeeding Promotion Act.

3. REPUBLIC ACT No. 11148
AN ACT SCALING UP THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL
HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS THROUGH
A STRENGTHENED INTEGRATED STRATEGY FOR
MATERNAL, NEONATAL, CHILD HEALTH AND
NUTRITION IN THE FIRST ONE THOUSAND (1,000)
DAYS OF LIFE, APPROPRIATING FUNDS AND
OTHER PURPOSES.
Legal Provisions

4. RA No. 11148 Section 8: Program
Components….(c.) The program shall
include health and nutrition services and
interventions provided at the different life
stages. The LGUs, NGAs, concerned CSOs,
and other stakeholders shall work together
to ensure the delivery of these services and
interventions.
Legal Provisions

5. “Lactation stations” - private, clean,
sanitary, and well-ventilated rooms
or areas in the workplace or public
places where nursing mothers can
wash up, breastfeed or express their
milk comfortably and store this
afterward. Also known as
breastfeeding room/area/station.
Definition of Terms

6. “Establishment” - refers to any
private entity, whether operating
for profit or not, employing
individuals where work or any
being undertaken, located in one
office or workplace address.
Definition of Terms

7. o follow-up visits to health
facilities where they gave
birth and home visits for
women in difficult-to-reach
communities;
Program Components

8. o lactation support and
counselling from birth up to
two years and beyond,
including those women who
will return to work and for
women in the informal
economies who breastfeed;
Program Components

9. o nutrition assessment and
counselling to meet the
demands of breastfeeding in
health facilities and
workplaces in the private
sector;
Program Components

10. o identification of malnutrition and
nutritionally-at-risk postpartum and
lactating women, including
adolescent mothers, and in addition
to dietary supplementation, as
appropriate;
Program Components

11. o community-based support
groups and peer counsellors
for breastfeeding in
cooperation with other
nutrition and health workers;
Program Components

12. o Lactation breaks for women in
the workplaces in the private
sector including micro, small
and medium enterprises;
Program Components

13. o availability of breastfeeding/lactation
stations in the workplaces, informal
economy workplaces, and in public places
and public means of transportation as
stipulated in Republic Act No. 10028,
otherwise known as the "Expanded
Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009" and
its Implementing Rules and Regulations;
Program Components

14. o promotion of the
consumption of iodized salt
and foods fortified with
micronutrients deemed
necessary;
Program Components

15. o access to health and nutrition
facilities/services, such as,
but not limited to, dietary
supplementation, healthy food
products and commodities for
nutritionally-at-risk postpartum
and/or breastfeeding women;
Program Components

16. o women-friendly and child-
friendly spaces where
mothers and their infants will
be able to continue
breastfeeding during
calamities, disasters, or other
emergencies; and
Program Components

17. o others as may be determined
based on international and
national guidelines and generated
locally.
Program Components

18. Breastfeeding workers/employees shall granted break
intervals in addition to the regular time-off for meals to
breastfeed or express milk. These intervals, shall include
the time it takes the worker/employee to get to and from the
workplace lactation station, shall be counted as
compensable hours worked. The Department of Labor and
Employment may adjust the same: Provided, That such
intervals shall not be less than a total of forty minutes of
every eight-hour working period.
Nutrition and Lactation

19. Nutrition and Lactation
The general care of a mother-
infant nursing couple during
the mother’s prenatal,
immediate postpartum and
postnatal periods.

20. Nutrition and Lactation
REPUBLIC ACT No. 10028…..(o.) Lactation
management - the monitoring of breastfeeding
mothers to ensure compliance with the DOH, WHO,
UNICEF in the implementation of breastfeeding
policies, the physiology of lactation, and the
establishment and maintenance of lactation
stations, at the workplaces in the private sector as
mandated by DOLE.

21. Nutrition and Lactation
Per DOLE Department Order No. 143,
provides that an application for
exemption from setting up lactation
station by a private establishment may
be granted for a renewable period of two
years by the DOLE.

22. The DOLE cited provisions in the law that require
lactation stations to have adequate equipment
and facilities, such as:
- a lavatory;
- a refrigeration or cooling station for
storing breastmilk;
- electrical outlets for breast pumps; and
- a table and comfortable seats.
Nutrition and Lactation

23. “Healthy Diet Gawing
Affordable For All”

27. Health
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28. Thank You