Predominant Breastfeeding ✔✔ Babies who receive breastmilk and other liquids (e.g. water, minerals, vitamins, oral meds).
Breastfeeding ✔✔
... [Show More] Baby receives human milk, as well as other foods or fluids, including formula.
Complementary Feeding ✔✔ Process starts when BM alone or infant formula alone is no longer sufficient to meet nutritional requirements of infants, therefore other foods or liquids are introduced. Typically child is between 6-23 months
3 strategies for increasing BF initiation and duration ✔✔ Promotion, Protection, Support
Promotion ✔✔ Focuses on advantages of BF on a personal, community, country, or global level. BF to the community.
Protection ✔✔ Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure BF ability to compete with commercial interests.
Includes state, local, an national laws regarding BF.
International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Subsitutes ✔✔ Addresses improper marketing practices by formula companies. It is not currently a law in the US.
What does the International Code Prohibit? ✔✔ Distributing free formula
Giving coupons for formula
What did the AAP resolution state in regards to the International Code? ✔✔ No distributing formula, discharge bags, industry written handouts.
Support ✔✔ Focuses on interaction of helpers with family, as well as program development and implementation.
10 steps to successful BF ✔✔ 1. Written BF policy. Skin to Skin immediately after birth.
2. Train healthcare staff
3. Inform pregnant women about benefits and management of BF
4. Help all mothers initiate BF within 1 hour after birth
5. Show mother's how to BF and maintain lactation
6. Exclusive breast milk only
7. Practice rooming in 24 hours a day
8. Encourage BF on demand
9. No artificial teats or pacifiers
10. Establishment of BF support groups
Healthcare staff responsibility for working with lactating mothers include what? ✔✔ 1. Training
2. Minimum of 20 hours of training
3. 3 hours of competency verification
What are the indications for providing supplementation other than breast milk? ✔✔ 1. Medical condition
2. Parents request after being informed of consequences
Protocol for calculating Baby's daily needs ✔✔ Baby's weight x 2.5 (2.7 or 3.0 if Baby needs to catch up weight) = daily ounces. PCP decides what the multiplier is!!!
What should be assessed 3-5 days after birth by PCP? ✔✔ Hydration (elimination patterns)
Body weight (no more than 7% loss)
Observe Feeding
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