HealthPhone™: Step 1 - Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust in association with UNICEF Maharashtra presents

Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

tensteps.org

World Health Organization,WABA, UNICEF

Dr. Raj K. Anand In the year of 1991, the World Health Organization and UNICEF introduced the baby-friendly hospital initiative to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in all birth settings. The key elements of this initiative are the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. We invite you to witness the implementation of these ten steps in a hospital.

Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infant should:

Step 1

Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all healthcare staff.

The first step is to have a written breastfeeding policy in English and local languages. It addresses all the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and states that the hospital does not accept any free or subsidized supplies of infant formula and feeding bottles. It is communicated to the hospital administration as well as to all the health workers in the maternity setting.

Facility has a written breastfeeding policy that addresses all Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Policy clearly states that free or subsidized supplies of infant formula are not accepted.

Policy displayed in following areas: Ante-natal clinic Labor room Post operative ward Post natal clinic Pediatric OPD Women's OPD and Immunization clinic Policy should be available in English and local language

"Follow the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for a healthy and happy mother and child"

visit us on-line at tensteps.org