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WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991 to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The Ten Steps summarize a package of policies and procedures that facilities providing maternity and newborn services should implement to support breastfeeding. In 2018, WHO revised the Ten Steps based on the 2017 guideline on protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. WHO has called upon all facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps. The implementation guidance for BFHI focuses on integrating the programme across healthcare systems to facilitate universal coverage and ensure sustainability over time. The guidance outlines nine key national responsibilities to scale up implementation of the Ten Steps. Critical management procedures: 1a.Comply fully with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutesand relevant World Health Assembly resolutions. 1b.Have a written infant feeding policy that is routinely communicated to staff and parents. 1c.Establish ongoing monitoring and data-management systems. 2.Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding. Key clinical practices: 3.Discuss the importance and management of breastfeeding with pregnant women and their families. 4.Facilitate immediate and un...

• Research article • • 19 May 2021 Effects of a ‘Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative’ on exclusive breastfeeding rates at a private hospital in Lebanon: an interrupted time series analysis • • • • • • • • • • • … •  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4987-2585 Show authors BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume 21, Article number: 385 ( 2021) Background Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) through six months of age has been scientifically validated as having a wide range of benefits, but remains infrequent in many countries. The WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is one approach to improve EBF rates. Methods This study documents the implementation of BFHI at Clemenceau Medical Center (CMC), a private hospital in Lebanon, and analyzes data on EBF practices among CMC’s patients before, during, and after the implementation period. The process of launching the BFHI at CMC is discussed from the perspective of key stakeholders using the SQUIRE guidelines for reporting on quality improvement initiatives. As an objective measure of the program’s impact, 2,002 live births from July 2015 to February 2018 were included in an interrupted time series analysis measuring the rates of EBF at discharge prior to, during, and following the bundle of BFHI interventions. Results The steps necessary to bring CMC in line with the BFHI standards were implemented during the period between November 2015 and February 2016. These steps can be grouped into three phases: updates to hospital ...

Abstract Nurses play a major role in promoting the baby-friendly hospital initiative (BFHI), yet the adoption of this initiative by nurses remains a challenge in many countries, despite evidences of its positive impacts on breastfeeding outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing perinatal nurses to adopt the BFHI in their practice. Methods. A sample of 159 perinatal nurses from six hospital-based maternity centers completed a survey based on the theory of planned behavior. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between key independent variables and nurses’ intention to adopt the BFHI in their practice. A discriminant analysis of nurses’ beliefs helped identify the targets of actions to foster the adoption the BFHI among nurses. Results. The participants are mainly influenced by factors pertaining to their perceived capacity to overcome the strict criteria of the BFHI, the mothers’ approval of a nursing practice based on the BFHI, and the antenatal preparation of the mothers. Conclusions. This study provides theory-based evidence for the development of effective interventions aimed at promoting the adoption of the BFHI in nurses’ practice. 1. Introduction Exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life is vital to the short and long-term health of the baby. Nevertheless, rates are still low in both developing and developed countries [ The ten steps to successful breastfeeding. In Ca...

Overview The 2018 BFHI Implementation Guidance called for greater pre-service education on breastfeeding and called upon all maternity facilities to “Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding (Step 2).” This guide presents a comprehensive competency verification toolkit to assist countries, health care systems and individual facilities to assess staff competency in the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to implement the Ten Steps. The toolkit introduces a Competency Verification Tool with performance indicators, and Examiners Resource to clearly spell out correct and incorrect responses/behaviours, a set of multiple-choice questions, case studies, and observation tools. Annexes • 21 pages, pdf (359.3Kb) • 22 pages, pdf (363.7Kb) • 38 pages, pdf (537.9Kb) • 40 pages, pdf (546.4Kb) • 16 pages, pdf (259.8Kb) • 13 pages, pdf (459.0Kb) • 16 pages, pdf (355.5Kb)