This Guideline provides evidence-based clinical practice recommendations to support lactation for those parents who choose to provide human milk to their newborns and who are separated during the initial birth hospitalization. The goals of the proposed recommendations are to 1) ensure all parents have the ability to make informed feeding decisions, 2) enable parents to effectively initiate and sustain milk supply for their newborn through discharge, and 3) help parents reach their personal breastfeeding goals beyond the immediate hospitalization period.
This Guideline provides evidence-based approaches to accomplish the following:
Promote human milk as the primary source of nutrition for all newborns during parent-newborn separation.
Recognize diversity in the parent-newborn dyad.
Implement the Spatz 10-step system as the national model for providing human milk to vulnerable newborns.Define human milk as a medical intervention to support the nutritional and immunologic needs of vulnerable newborns.
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