Lactation Management Training

1. BABY-FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE
Revised, Updated and Expanded for Integrated Care
“Maternity”, 1963, © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

2. Session 1
The Baby Friendly Hospital
Initiative: A Part of the Global
Strategy

3. SESSION OBJECTIVES:
1. State the aim of the WHO/UNICEF Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding;
2. Outline the aims of the Baby-Friendly Hospital
Initiative (BFHI);
3. Describe why BFHI is important in areas of high
HIV prevalence;
4. Explain how this course can assist this facility at
this time.
5. Review how this course fits with other activities

4. EFFECTS OF POOR INFANT FEEDING
PRACTICES:
• About 5500 children die everyday
• Suffer long-term effects:
> impaired development
> malnutrition
> increased infectious / chronic
illness
> rising rates of obesity in
children

5. GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR INFANT AND
YOUNG CHILD FEEDING
The aim of the Global Strategy is to improve
– through optimal feeding – the nutritional
status, growth and development, health, and
thus the survival of infants and young children.
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6. The Global Strategy for
IYCF
• It supports exclusive
breastfeeding for 6 months, with
timely, adequate, safe and
appropriate complementary
feeding, while continuing
breastfeeding for two years and
beyond.

7. • It also supports maternal
nutrition, and social
and community support.

8. THE AIM OF THE
BABY FRIENDLY HOSPITAL
INITIATIVE
To implement the Ten Steps to
Successful Breastfeeding and to end
the distribution of free and low-cost
supplies of breastmilk substitutes to
health facilities.
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9. BFHI is important in areas of
high HIV prevalence
• Special needs of HIV+ women can
be accommodated.
• WHO/UNICEF policy statement, the
right to information and support.
• Continue to support women who are
HIV (-) or unknown status.

10. How this course can assist this
health facility
• Discuss the Ten Steps and how to
implement them
• Importance of making the facility Baby
Friendly
• Talk about practices related to marketing
of breastmilk substitutes
• Assessment process

11. Objective of the Course
The aim of this course is that
every staff member will confidently
support mothers with early and exclusive
breastfeeding,
and that this facility moves towards
achieving Baby-friendly designation.
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12. You will learn & practice
• Communication skills
• Implement 10 steps, abide by the EO 51
• Discuss importance of breastfeeding
• Facilitate skin to skin contact
• Positioning and attachment
• Support BF upon discharged
• Know whom & where to refer
• Seek ways to overcome barriers

13. It is supported by national policies, laws and
programs to promote, protect and support
breastfeeding and protect the rights of
working women to maternity protection.
National programs like:
IYCF / EO 51 / BFHI / maternity leave laws
How the global strategy fits with
other activities

14. Summary
• The aim of the Global Strategy is to
improve through optimal feeding
• Supports exclusive breastfeeding for 6
months
• Supports maternal nutrition, and social
communication support

15. • The aim of Baby- Friendly Hospital
Initiative is to implement the Ten Steps
to Successful Breastfeeding and to end
the distribution of breast milk
substitutes to health facilities

16. • Support exclusive breastfeeding and
BFHI to continue to be important
everywhere, even in areas of high
HIV prevalence