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Published:May 2023
Sarah T. Adams, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, "Breastfeeding", Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine, Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP, Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
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The pediatric hospitalist can impact population health by counseling mothers on the benefits of breastfeeding, facilitating successful breastfeeding in the newborn period, protecting breastfeeding during hospital admission of mothers or infants, and establishing hospital breastfeeding policies that protect and empower the nursing dyad.
Promote breastfeeding by encouraging immediate skin-to-skin contact upon delivery, with the initial infant assessment occurring on the mother’s abdomen. Routine neonatal care such as initial weight, vitamin K, and erythromycin can be provided while skin-to-skin or delayed until after the initial breastfeeding session. Even after cesarean sections or multiple births, in the absence of complications, the infant...
