Human Milk and Breastfeeding: Increasing exclusivity in the hospital

The exclusive human milk for babies (EHM4B) neonatal health initiative will focus on the use of human milk in hospitals for infant nutrition. Tracks have been designed for Newborn Critical Care Centers (NCCC) to focus on supports and barriers to getting mother’s milk for babies under 1500 grams and/or for maternity care centers to focus on supporting mothers choice to provide exclusive breastfeeding for their term infants. The initiative will reduce variations in care and increase the number of infants nourished by mother’s milk.

Updates

Updates

Human Milk Phase II - NCCC Track Update: Focus on Breastfeeding Support...
March 18, 2013 - The focus for teams this month was on Breastfeeding Support.  PQCNC provided tools, resources, and presentations from experts on what is breastfeeding support, who can provide it, training needed, staffing guidelines and how Read more...
Human Milk Phase II - NCCC Track January 2013 Update: Focus on Early Pumping...
February 17, 2013 - Much of the work of the teams this month focused on early initiation of pumping.  Teams shared their work on this month's webinar, with Cape Fear leading the discussion by highlighting the changes in their Labor & Read more...
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Results

Results

Over the entire collaborative we increased breastfeeding support by 425%, skin to skin days increased by 450% Learn more...