Purpose
Learn about the Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC™) Assessment Tool resources available to maternity care programs, hospital management officials, policy makers, and others.
Resources
The CDC Guide to Strategies to Support Breastfeeding Mothers and Babies
The Guide includes a chapter on maternity care practices and provides descriptions and examples for improving maternity care practices.
Infant Safety in Maternity Care Practices that Support Breastfeeding in U.S. Birth Facilities
This CDC webpage provides links to documents and resources for current recommendations for breastfeeding and infant safety in U.S. maternity hospitals.
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding
This document outlines steps for removing obstacles that women face when wanting to breastfeed their babies. This includes seven actions related to health care.
Implementation Guidance: Protecting, Promoting, and Supporting Breastfeeding in Facilities Providing Maternity and Newborn Services: The Revised Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative 2018
This is a WHO guidance document. It is intended to help policy makers, breastfeeding and nutrition programs, and hospital management with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
The Baby-Friendly USA Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria
Baby-Friendly USA is the U.S. organization responsible for coordinating and conducting activities to award the Baby-Friendly designation. The Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria describe standards of maternity care that hospitals should strive to achieve for all women and infants. The Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria also include the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. This resource may help program officials working with hospitals to start evidenced-based maternity care practices or working toward the Baby-Friendly designation.
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's Model Maternity Policy Supportive of Breastfeeding
This model policy aligns with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Hospitals can use it when starting or changing hospital maternity care policies.