At Breastfeeding Outlook, we get many calls from hospital staff members asking for help with their hospital breastfeeding policy. How many hospital breastfeeding policies have I…
Undertaking the process of becoming a Baby-Friendly facility can cause a case of nerves at the best of times. But in the case of any number of…
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “It costs too much to go Baby-Friendly!” Well, it’s true that going Baby-Friendly doesn’t happen for…
In the first part of this series, I focused on the need to plan a multifaceted approach to communicating the new breastfeeding policy you developed…
In this post, I’ll focus on how to get your staff to participate in your breastfeeding policy, while in the first part of this series,…
The first of the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” the lynchpin of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, reads: “Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely…
Anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, M.D. developed the Apgar Score in 1952 as a “rapid method of assessing the clinical status of the newborn infant at 1…
Pursuing recognition as a Baby-Friendly Hospital can be a long and complicated process. If your hospital is in the planning stage for “going Baby-Friendly,” a…