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Mother Baby Friendly Health Facility Initiative (4hrs)

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History
https://youtu.be/vljvUZeuM8k

ECCD Council: Member Agencies and Programs
https://youtu.be/SGw7auKgmWU

Millennium Development Goals
https://youtu.be/4hA81oaCNXk

The 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
https://youtu.be/mNr7V0F_Tlk?t=204

Bringing Evidence to Practice: Introducing the Baby-Friendly Initiative
https://youtu.be/XeUYYfMZtTs

Baby Friendly: Caring for Families | UCHealth
https://youtu.be/2FapdI6hUSA

Halifax Health - Baby Friendly Initiative
https://youtu.be/h-L5ha_Em1I

Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (MBFHI) Orientation
https://youtu.be/mNr7V0F_Tlk?t=204

Train all health-care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy
https://youtu.be/2FapdI6hUSA

Room-in With Baby Following Childbirth | Texas WIC on Breastfeeding Support
https://youtu.be/T6eUDbIjZEA

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
https://youtu.be/9-xdy1Jr2eg

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MBFHFI Pre-Test (4 hrs) 1 Quiz

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MBFHFI Pre-Test (4 hrs)

A History of Breastfeeding & Baby Feeding 1 Topic

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Session 1: The national infant feeding situation 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Session 1: The national infant feeding situation.

Millennium Development Goals

WHO’s infant and young child feeding recommendations.

Key questions to compare the country’s situation with WHO infant and young child feeding recommendations.

Review Question 1

Session 2: The benefits of breastfeeding 14 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Breastfeeding Benefits for Mom and Baby

Benefits of breastfeeding for the infant

How human breast milk composition contains somnogenic nucleotides that help infants sleep

Breast milk composition

Protective effect of breastfeeding on infant morbidity

Immune-boosting properties of breast milk | The Biology of Breast Milk

Protective effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality

The Miracle Molecules in Breast Feeding: Protecting Infants from Allergies

Breastfeeding reduces the risk of chronic disease

Breastfeeding has psychosocial and developmental benefits

Breast milk may improve intelligence in infants | Biology of Breast Milk

Duration of breastfeeding associated with higher IQ scores in young adults, Denmark

Breastfeeding effects: Mother and Baby

Benefits of breastfeeding for the mother

Review Questions 2

Session 3: The Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative 9 Topics | 2 Quizzes

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Goals of the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative

Key dates in the history of breastfeeding and BFHI

The International code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes

Scoping Review of the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes

Summary of the main points of the International Code

The role of administrators and staff in upholding the International Code

Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E)

IYCF-E Question

The route to baby-friendly designation

Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)

Further strengthening of BFHI

Session 4: The scientific basis for the “Ten Steps” 37 Topics | 6 Quizzes

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Step 7: Practice rooming-in — allow mothers and infants to remain together — 24 hours a day.

Morbidity of newborn babies at Sanglah Hospital before and after rooming-in

Rooming-In: Review Questions

Step 8: Encourage breastfeeding on demand.

Not Enough Milk – Breastfeeding Series

Not Enough Milk – Breastfeeding Series

Encourage breastfeeding on demand: Review Question

Step 9: Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies and soothers) to breastfeeding infants

Proportion of infants who were breastfed up to 6 months of age according to frequency of pacifier use at 1 month

Cup Feeding – Small Baby Series

Cup feeding is a method that may be used as a temporary feeding option when:

Step 10: Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.

Helping a Breastfeeding Mother – Breastfeeding Series

Breastfeeding When You Go Back to Work – Nutrition Series

Effect of trained peer counsellors on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding

Combined Steps: The influence of Baby-friendly hospitals on breastfeeding duration in Switzerland

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Session 5: Becoming Baby-Friendly in Settings with high HIV prevalence 17 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Can You Breastfeed With HIV? – Nonhlanhla’s story | UNICEF

Breastfeeding Review Question

Global summary of the HIV & AIDS epidemic, December 2007

HIV: The scientific basis for the Ten Steps for settings with high HIV prevalence

The Ten Steps to successful breastfeeding: Actions, concerns and solutions – worksheet Example

Becoming Baby-friendly in settings with high HIV prevalence

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

Step 2: Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.

Eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Step 3: Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.

Step 4: Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within a half-hour of birth.

Step 5: Show mothers how to breastfeed and maintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants.

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

Risk factor: Maternal blood viral load

Step 7: Practice rooming in — allow mothers and infants to remain together — 24 hours a day.

Step 8: Encourage breastfeeding on demand.

Step 9: Give no artificial teats or pacifiers.

Step 10: Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.

Session 6: Costs and Savings 3 Topics

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Costs and savings for health facilities

Costs and savings at the health care system and the national level

Comparative health care costs of treating breastfed and formula-fed babies in the first year of life in a health maintenance organization (HMO)

Session 7: Developing action plans 2 Topics

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National Breastfeeding Awareness Month and World Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Training / Seminar Evaluation Form 1 Quiz

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Training / Seminar Evaluation Form (MBFHI) 4hrs

MBFHFI Post-Test (4 hrs)

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