Baby Friendly Hospital
21.10.2022

Baby Friendly Hospital

In order to encourage breast milk, to raise awareness of mothers about breastfeeding and to give them the right breastfeeding habits, the Ministry of Health's efforts were initiated in 1991 in the Breastfeeding Promotion and Baby-Friendly Hospitals Program in hospitals providing maternity and child services. The aim of this program, which was started, was determined to ensure that breastfeeding becomes successful and permanent.

Our hospital has been a “baby-friendly hospital” since 2002, and it received the titles of “mother-friendly hospital” and “baby-friendly neonatal intensive care” in 2018.

Our hospital aims to help mothers to breastfeed their babies in the best possible way through health professionals who provide information on breast milk and breastfeeding, and who have received the necessary training immediately after birth.

As Baby Friendly Hospital, all of our employees receive breast milk training. Breastfeeding and breastfeeding trainings are given regularly to our mothers during pregnancy, birth and postpartum period.

Within the scope of the Ministry of Health's efforts to encourage breastfeeding and to provide mothers with information and correct habits about breastfeeding, the "Baby Friendly" Hospitals program was launched to ensure that breastfeeding becomes a successful and established practice in hospitals where maternity services are provided.

Our hospital, which provides maternity services, informs expectant mothers about breast milk and breastfeeding from pregnancy, enables mothers to breastfeed their babies immediately after birth, and helps mothers on how to breastfeed their babies with its health personnel trained in line with current information, has received the title of "Baby Friendly Hospital".

As of 04.10.2019, our breastfeeding counseling and lactation polyclinic started to serve in our Gynecology and Childhood Unit.

 

BOLU İZZET BAYSAL STATE HOSPITAL 
BREASTFEEDING POLICY

    1. ALL STAFF WORKING IN THE DELIVERY UNITS AND CHILDREN'S UNITS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL POLICY REGARDING SUCCESSFUL BREASTFEEDING.
    2. ALL HEALTHCARE STAFF IS TRAINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS POLICY.
    3. PREGNANT WOMEN ARE INFORMED ABOUT BENEFITS AND METHODS OF BREASTFEEDING.
    4. IN THE FIRST HOUR AFTER BIRTH, BABIES ARE HELPED TO BEGIN BREASTFEEDING BY MAKING SKIN CONTACT WITH THEIR MOTHERS.
    5. EXCEPT MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS, IT IS PROVIDED THAT THE MOTHERS AND THE BABIES ARE TOGETHER FOR 24 HOURS.
    6. EFFECTIVE BREASTFEEDING METHODS ARE SHOWED TO MOTHERS. THE MOTHER IS INFORMED TO CONTINUE BREASTFEEDING WITH SUITABLE COMPLEMENTARY NUTRITION UP TO THE FIRST 6 MONTHS OF THE BABY AND UP TO THE AGE OF TWO AND OVER.
    7. IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS, WHERE MOTHER AND BABY MUST BE SEPARATE, MOTHERS ARE EXPLAINED AND SHOWED THE NEED FOR MILKING AND METHODS FOR CONTINUING LACTATION.
    8. THE MOTHER AND ITS NEAR SURROUNDINGS ARE INFORMED ABOUT NOT GIVING FOOD, BEVERAGES AND BOTTLES TO BABIES EXCEPT FOR MEDICAL REASONS.
    9. THE MOTHER IS SUPPORTED TO BREASTFEEDING HER BABY EVERY TIME HE WANTS.
    10. ALL PREGNANTS WHO APPOINT TO THE GYNECOLOGY POLYCLINIC ARE INFORMED ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF BREASTFEEDING.
    11. MOTHERS ARE İNFORMED ABOUT THE HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS AND MOTHERS' SUPPORT GROUPS IN ORDER TO CONTINUE BREASTFEEDING AND SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY FACE, AND FOR MAKING THEIR BABIES AND THEIR OWN CONTROLS AFTER DISCHARGING FROM HOSPITAL.
    12. IN ALL UNITS OF OUR ORGANIZATION, THE INTERNATIONAL LAW REGARDING THE MARKETING OF BABY FORMULAS MUST BE ADOPTED AND IMPLEMENTED.

Baby Friendly Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Our hospital has been given the title of "Baby-Friendly Newborn Intensive Care Unit" because it informs mothers who have babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and gives birth about breast milk, and helps mothers on how to breastfeed their babies immediately after birth.

All of our health staffs working in the neonatal intensive care unit are trained for breast milk and breastfeeding. Mothers are informed about the benefits and methods of breastfeeding, how to breastfeed, how to maintain the secretion of milk when they are separated from their babies, how to express the breast and proper storage conditions. In the service, suitable conditions are provided for mother-infant union.



BOLU İZZET BAYSAL STATE HOSPITAL

OUR LASTING POLICY FOR NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE



  1. AS BOLU İZZET BAYSAL STATE HOSPITAL, A WRITTEN POLICY HAS BEEN CREATED AT OUR INSTITUTION TO ENROLL BABIES TO FEED WITH BREAST MILK FOR NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS.
  2. ALL HEALTH STAFFS WORKING IN THE NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT OUR INSTITUTION HAVE RECEIVED CONSULTANCY TRAINING ON BREAST MILK AND BREASTFEEDING AND HAVE THE SKILLS TO PROVIDE THIS CONSULTING. THIS TRAINING ALSO INCLUDES LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND RISKY BABIES.
  3. IN OUR INSTITUTION, MOTHERS ARE INFORMED ON THE BENEFITS AND METHODS OF BREASTFEEDING, HOW THE BREASTFEEDING WILL BE , HOW THE BABIES CAN CONTINUE STORING WHEN THE BABIES ARE SEPARATED FROM MOTHERS. MOTHERS ARE INFORMED ABOUT CONTINUING BREASTFEEDING THE BABIES WITH SUITABLE COMPLEMENTARY NUTRITION UP TO THE FIRST 6 MONTHS AND WITH EXCLUSIVE COMPLEMENTARY NUTRITION.
  4. IN OUR INSTITUTION, IF THE MOTHER CANNOT BREAST THE BABY AFTER THE BABY IS BORN, THE MOTHER IS TAUGHT TO EXPRESS THEIR BREAST MILK AND MONITOR WITHIN THE FIRST 6 HOURS.
  5. IN OUR INSTITUTION, BABIES OWN MOTHER'S MILK IS GIVEN TO BABIES WHO RECEIVE TREATMENT IN INTENSIVE CARE, UNLESS IT IS MEDICAL REASON NECESSARY (IN THE SITUATION WHEN THE MOTHER IS NOT AVAILABLE OR WHERE BRAIN MILK IS CONTRAINDICATED).

    NUTRITION IN BABIES WHO CAN NOT NOURISH WITH MOTHER MILK IS MADE BY THE CUP, AN INJECTOR OR NASO-GASTRIC CATHETER. BABIES WHO CAN GET THE MOTHER'S BREAST ARE GIVEN A START BREASTFEED IMMEDIATELY. RELACTATION IS PROVIDED WITH BREASTFEEDING SUITABLE CONDITIONS FOR MOTHER-BABY UNION IN NEWBORN UNITS ARE PROVIDED AT OUR INSTITUTION.

  6. SUITABLE CONDITIONS FOR MOTHER-BABY COMMUNITY IN NEWBORN UNITS ARE PROVIDED AT OUR INSTITUTION.
  7. IN OUR INSTITUTION, IN THE NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE SERVICES, MOTHER AND BABY ARE MADE SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. NECESSARY MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED TO KANGAROO CARE OF THE , AND TECHNICAL AGENTS AND DETAILS BETWEEN MOTHER AND BABY ARE REDUCED.
  8. IN ALL UNITS OF OUR ORGANIZATION, THE INTERNATIONAL LAW REGARDING THE MARKETING OF BABY FORMULAS MUST BE ADOPTED AND IMPLEMENTED.