Breastfeeding Toolkit
Providing Education on Breastfeeding
Many pregnant women are not encouraged to breastfeed their babies. When mothers breastfeed, they provide their babies essential nutrients and boost their immunity, all while bonding with their child. As health providers, we need to encourage more mothers to breastfeed so their babies get those natural health benefits. Once a woman begins her prenatal care, breastfeeding education should be provided consistently and continuously during the prenatal visits.
Healthy child development habits begin before birth. One proven strategy for reducing the risk of obesity early in life is to support breastfeeding. Experts agree we need to increase the number of health care facilities that encourage mothers to:
- feed their babies breast milk only for the first six months of life, and
- start feeding solid foods to their babies at six months while continuing to breastfeed until the 12th month.
Below are tools to assist you in supporting breastfeeding.
Guidelines on Breastfeeding
- The Ten Steps Hospitals Must Take to Be Baby Friendly
- PEPC Education Guidelines For Baby-Friendly Hospitals [WORD - 52 KB]
- IHS Patient Education Breastfeeding Protocols and Codes (PEPC) [PDF - 6.9 MB]
- CRS Breastfeeding Guidelines/Logic [PDF - 24 KB]
Provider Education - Breastfeeding
- Anatomy and Physiology of Breastfeeding [PDF - 53 KB]
- Benefits of breastfeeding [PDF - 38 KB]
- Breastfeeding positions [PDF - 109 KB]
- Breastfeeding pumps (Equipment) [PDF - 46 KB]
- Breast care and sore nipples [PDF - 46 KB]
- Collection and Storage of breast milk [PDF - 35 KB]
- Growth and development of your baby while Breastfeeding [PDF - 37 KB]
- Help Lines for Breastfeeding [PDF - 20 KB]
- Hunger Cues - when to breast feed your baby [PDF - 41 KB]
- Latch on [PDF - 33 KB]
- Lifestyle adaptations during your Breastfeeding [PDF - 48 KB]
- Managing Stress while breastfeeding [PDF - 36 KB]
- Taking medicines while you are Breastfeeding [PDF - 20 KB]
- Your baby’s milk intake while Breastfeeding [PDF - 47 KB]
- Neonatal Jaundice [PDF - 30 KB]
- Nutrition while you are breastfeeding [PDF - 21 KB]
- When to introduce solid foods [PDF - 35 KB]
- Teething [PDF - 36 KB]
- Weaning your baby from the breast [PDF - 26 KB]
Provider Education - Formula Feeding
- Feeding choices: Formula Feeding Skills for your Baby [PDF - 39 KB]
- Feeding choices: Helpline and Formula Feeding your Baby [PDF - 19 KB]
- Feeding choices: Hygiene for Formula Feeding your Baby [PDF - 34 KB]
- Feeding choices: Literature on Formula Feeding your Baby [PDF - 10 KB]
- Feeding choices: Nutrition and Formula Feeding your Baby [PDF - 34 KB]
- Feeding choices: Safety and Formula Feeding your Baby [PDF - 28 KB]
Provider Education - Labor and Delivery
- Non-pharmacologic pain relief childbirth exercises, relaxation, breathing [PDF - 33 KB]
- Non-pharmacologic pain relief Role of Labor/Delivery Partner/Coach [PDF - 25 KB]
- Non-pharmacologic pain relief Pain Management [PDF - 29 KB]
Provider Education - Rooming In
- The Importance of 24-Hour Rooming In [PDF - 29 KB]
