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The Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Facility
The Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Facility was created in November 2025 as a quality improvement breastfeeding initiative that is recreated from the Department of Health's Keystone 10 Initiative. This initiative is aimed at improving the protection, promotion, initiation, duration, and support of breastfeeding in Pennsylvania infants, parents, and families.
These fifteen modules are a part of Step 2 of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Participating facilities focus on the breastfeeding initiative from exclusive breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact, rooming in, and other elements.
If you have any additional questions on The Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Facility, please email Shaley Christensen at breastfeeding@paaap.org.
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The Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Facility - 15 Modules
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative was launched in 1991 by WHO and UNICEF to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn care worldwide. This initiative is to implement The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding that supports facilities in providing education and knowledge for maternity and newborn services.
The Ten Steps:
Step 1: Have a breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all staff
Step 2: Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement the facility breastfeeding policy
Step 3: Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding
Step 4: Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth.
Step 5: Show mothers how to breastfeed and maintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants.
Step 6: Give newborns no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically indicated
Step 7: Practice "rooming-in" - allow mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day.
Step 8: Encourage breastfeeding on demand.
Step 9: Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called bottle nipples or soothers) to breastfeeding infants
Step 10: Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them upon discharge from the facility
PUMP Act Q+A & Discussion
Learn more about your rights as a lactating employee, requirements as an employer and other important information- Presented by the Women's Law Project!
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