ArticlePaediatrics & child health2012
The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding.
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- Lactation support and breastfeeding duration in jaundiced infants: a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation and Scale-Up of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: A Qualitative Study in Saskatchewan, Canada.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Barriers Affecting Breastfeeding Practices of Refugee Mothers: A Critical Ethnography in Saskatchewan, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Development of Interventions to Support Provincial Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Initiative: A Study Protocol.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- Breastfeeding and human milk in the NICU: From birth to discharge.Paediatrics & child health · 2023Review
- Rates of and factors associated with exclusive and any breastfeeding at six months in Canada: an analysis of population-based cross-sectional data.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Knowledge of Breastfeeding Mothers Regarding Caries Prevention in Toddlers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Exploring the reasons why mothers do not breastfeed, to inform and enable better support.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- A review of the disruption of breastfeeding supports in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in five Western countries and applications for clinical practice.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Review
- Associations of Metabolic and Obstetric Risk Parameters with Timing of Lactogenesis II.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Early Postnatal Care: Exploring Primary Caregivers' Experiences of Continuity of Care After Discharge at Selected Districts in Limpopo Province South Africa.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Learning needs of family physicians, pediatricians, and obstetricians to support breastfeeding and inform physician education.Canadian medical education journal · 2021Article
- Shared decision-making for infant feeding and care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Evaluating antenatal breastmilk expression outcomes: a scoping review.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Article
- Breastfeeding rates are high in a prenatal community support program targeting vulnerable women and offering enhanced postnatal lactation support: a prospective cohort study.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
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- Infant feeding mode predicts the costs of healthcare services in one region of Canada: a data linkage pilot study.BMC research notes · 2020Article
- Maternal Race Trends in Early Infant Feeding Patterns in Hawai'i Using Newborn Metabolic Screening-Birth Certificate Linked Data 2008-2015.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2020Article
- Effects of workplaces receiving "accreditation of health workplaces" on breastfeeding promotion, parental leave, and gender equality.Journal of occupational health · 2020Article
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Knowledge, Intention to Practice and Predictors among Primiparous Women in Enugu South-East, Nigeria.Journal of pregnancy · 2019Article
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Abstract
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-Friendly Initiative (BFI) in 1991. The goal was to protect, promote and support breastfeeding by adherence to the WHO's "Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding". Since then, more than 20,000 hospitals in 156 countries have achieved Baby-Friendly status, with a resultant increase in both breastfeeding initiation and duration. Still, only 500 hospitals are currently designated Baby-Friendly in industrialized countries, including 37 health centres or health authorities in Canada. Health care practitioners have a unique and influential role in promoting and supporting breastfeeding. Provincial and territorial government leadership is essential to ensuring implementation of the BFI in all health care facilities delivering services to families with young children.
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