Workshop programme

Workshop 1

Guiding principle 2: Provide a family-centered care and environment.

Step 4: Encourage early, continuous and prolonged mother-infant skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Mother Care) without unwarranted restrictions.

Step 7: Enable mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day.

Workshop 2

Step 3: Inform hospitalized pregnant women at risk for preterm delivery or birth of an ill infant about the management of lactation and breastfeeding and benefits of breastfeeding.

Guiding principle 3: Continuity of care: pre-, peri- and postnatal, and post-discharge care.

Step 10: Prepare parents for continued breastfeeding and ensure access to support services/groups after hospital discharge.

Workshop 3

Step 1: Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.

Assessment and evaluation.

Step 2: Educate and train all staff in the specific knowledge and skills necessary to implement this policy.

Workshop 4

Step 5: Show mothers how to initiate and maintain lactation and establish early breastfeeding with infant stability as the only criterion.

Guiding principle 1: Staff attitude to the mother related to breastfeeding must have a focus on the individual mother and her situation.

Workshop 5

Step 6: Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated

Step 8: Encourage on demand feeding or, when needed, semi-demand feeding as a transitional strategy for preterm and ill infants.

Step 9: Use alternatives to bottle feeding at least until breastfeeding is well established and only use pacifiers and nipple shields for justifiable reasons.
Panel debate about bottle-feeding