World Health Organization
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Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
WHO recommendation
''Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health.
Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods, while continuing to breastfeed for up to two years or beyond.''
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Promoting and protecting breastfeeding
Implementation guidance: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the revised baby-friendly hospital initiative (2018 )
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The Baby-Friendly Initiative
Over the past few decades, awareness of the importance of breastfeeding has grown worldwide. In a 1989 joint statement, the WHO and UNICEF developed “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding” to support the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding (citation from WHO)
International Code
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