ABSTRACT Objective: to assess breastfeeding support practices for preterm infants at two Baby-Friendly hospitals in southeastern Brazil, comparing the effect of implementing guidelines Hospital Initiative Neonatal wards. Methods: a quasi-experimental study, pre- and post-intervention with control. Implementation this initiative intervention hospital using Knowledge Translation. Data collection ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors for weight loss over 8% in full-term newborns at postpartum discharge from a Baby Friendly Hospital. METHODS The cases were selected from a cohort of infants belonging to a previous study. Healthy full-term newborns with birth weight ≥2.000g, who were exclusively breastfed, and excluding twins and those undergoing phototherapy as well as those discharge...

OBJECTIVE To meet the information need of Brazilian municipalities concerning breastfeeding practices as part of health care planning, a study was carried out to describe breastfeeding and to identify weaning-related factors. METHODS Of all municipalities in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, openly called to participate in the study, 84 joined in. Personnel underwent training to collect data du...

OBJECTIVE To assess current breastfeeding practices in hospital in South Africa. DESIGN Survey conducted by means of a postal questionnaire for hospitals and a questionnaire based on the baby-friendly initiative action folder for mothers. SETTING All private and provincial hospitals according to the 1992 address list supplied by the Department of National Health: Readers of "Living and Lovi...

Background: Norway has since 1994 supported health care directed towards breastfeeding and the wellbeing of mothers and babies during pregnancy and childbirth, and the immediate post-partum period in Northwest Russia. After five years of implementing the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) 1994-1999 positive changes with increasing breastfeeding rates can be documented. While the BFHI conc...

Breastfeeding confers extensive and well-established benefits and is recognized as an extremely effective preventative health measure for both mothers and babies. Except in very few specific medical situations, breastfeeding should be universally encouraged for all mothers and infants. To improve worldwide breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, the WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendl...