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Department of Health breastfeeding care pathway - For Health Professionals
Department of Health breastfeeding care pathway - For Health Professionals
The Department of Health, with support from the Baby Friendly Initiative, has produced two breastfeeding care pathways for mothers and health professionals.
Medications and Mothers' Milk Medications and Mothers' Milk is the worldwide best-selling drug reference on the use of medications in breastfeeding mothers.
Promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding – An introduction to the Baby Friendly Initiative This leaflet offers a general introduction to the work of the Baby Friendly Initiative.
Co-ordinated introduction of best practice for breastfeeding across a local authority area This document outlines the process of achieving Baby Friendly accreditation across the relevant services within a local authority area, shows how the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative can best support the implementation of best practice and gives guidance on the costs involved.
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding to revitalize world attention to the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.
Department of Health breastfeeding care pathway - For mothers The Department of Health, with support from the Baby Friendly Initiative, has produced a breastfeeding care pathways for mothers.
Preventing disease and saving resources Preventing disease and saving resources: the potential contribution of increasing breastfeeding rates in the UK is a new report commissioned by UNICEF UK that looks at the cost to the NHS of low breastfeeding rates in the UK