Module # 15 – Assuring That Your Hospital is Supportive of Breastfeeding

Overview:

Module # 15 provides handy reminders for the Ten Steps to successful breastfeeding and discusses what “Baby-Friendly” practices mean and how a hospital or birth center can become one.

Objectives:

Understand what “Baby-Friendly” practice means.
Identify the barriers and solutions to implementing the steps that undermines the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) and the Maryland Hospital Breastfeeding Policy.
Follow and practice the Ten Steps to becoming a “Baby-Friendly” center.

Content:

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​Module # 15 – Assuring That Your Hospital is Supportive of Breastfeeding

Overview:

Objectives:

Content:

Module # 15 – Assuring That Your Hospital is Supportive of Breastfeeding