Seminar ON: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Seminar ON: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Seminar ON: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
SEMINAR
ON
BABY FRIENDLY HOSPITAL
INITIATIVE
SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
MS.POOJA CHAND UMAIRAH BASHIR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MSC(N) IST YEAR
ERA COLLEGE OF NURSING ERACOLLEGE OF NURSING
LUCKNOW LUCKNOW
SUBMITTED ON -
BABY FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE(BFHI)
INTRODUCTION
Manoncourt said of the 1,372 baby friendly hospital in India 65% are in
Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Dr. Elsie Philip, state coordinator of BFHI, said the rate of breast-feeding
initiation within a day is 92% in Kerala (compared to 78.7% in Tamil
Nadu and the national average of 37.1% )
DEFINITION:
The feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from female
human breasts rather than from a baby bottle or other container.
Goals of BFHI:
To transform hospitals and maternity facilities into breastfeeding
conductive environments.
To end the practice of distribution of free and low cost supplies of breast-
milk substitutes to maternity ward and hospital.
AIM:
Protection, promote and support of breastfeeding.
Ensures the proper use of breast-milk substitutes, when necessary.
Provides adequate information about infant feeding.
Prohibits the advertising or any other form of promotion of breast-milk
substitution.
Baby friendly hospitals are required to adopt breast-feeding policy and to follow
the “Ten steps of successful breastfeeding’’ as recommended by code of
practice of WHO/UNICEF.
RESEARCH INPUT
This study was conducted by TRINIE MOORE ,ROBIN GAULD and SHEILA
WILLIAMS at New Zealand public hospital,published on 23 April 2007, the aim
of the study was the developing and communicating BF policy to staff and
providing the necessary training for staff in order to be able to implement the
BFHI methodology used was purposive and using a content analysis
technique,key themes were drawn from the transcribed interview data.Sample
six hospital organisations and include one very large urban tertiary hospital
that serves over 1 million people.Where 50% people are intersected to know
about BFHI and extending the number of interviewers would not have yielded
further knowledge.
SUMMARY
Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk unless medically
indicated. Practise rooming in-allow mothers and infants to remain together -24
hours a day.Encourage breastfeeding on demand. Give no artificial teats or
pacifiers(also called dummies or soothers)to breastfeeding infants
CONCLUSION
• Through the studies analyzed,the BFHI showed effectiveness in
increasing breatfeeding in many regions of the world, contributing to the
reduction of infant morbidity and mortality.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Wilson David,HockenberryJ.Marilyn; Wong’s Essential of PEDIATRIC
NURSING; First South Asia Edition; page no.185-186.
• Datta Parul; PEDIATRIC NURSING ; second edition ; JAPEE BROTHERS
Medical publishers;page no.24-25.
REFRENCES
.http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/infantfeeding/en/index.html
2.http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/topics/prevention-
care/child/nutrition/en/index.html
3.http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index-breastfeeding.html