Interventions to Promote Breastfeeding (2004)
RECOMMENDATIONS
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is good evidence to recommend providing structured antepartum educational programs and postpartum support to promote breastfeeding initiation and duration.
(A recommendation)
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is fair evidence to recommend peer counselling to promote initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.
(B recommendation)
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is good evidence to recommend against providing written materials alone to promote breastfeeding.
(D recommendation)
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is insufficient evidence to make a recommendation regarding advice by primary caregivers to promote breastfeeding.
(I recommendation)
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is good evidence to recommend against providing commercial discharge packages to new mothers.
(E recommendation)
- The CTFPHC concludes that there is no new evidence of compelling quality to overturn the earlier published A level recommendation in favour of rooming in and early maternal contact.