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ABM Clinical Protocol #14: Breastfeeding-Friendly Physician’s Office: Optimizing Care for Infants and Children, Revised 2013
Abstract
A central goal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is the development of clinical protocols for managing common medical problems that may impact breastfeeding success. These protocols serve only as guidelines for the care of breastfeeding mothers and infants and do not delineate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as standards of medical care. Variations in treatment may be appropriate according to the needs of an individual patient .
Definitions
Breastfeeding-Friendly physician’s office
A PHYSICIAN’S PRACTICE that enthusiastically promotes and supports breastfeeding through the combination of a conducive office environment and education of healthcare professionals, office staff, and families. (For the purposes of this document “physician” refers to anyone who is rendering the primary medical care to the breastfeeding dyad, both the mother antepartum and the dyad postpartum. In different countries and cultures that could be a doctor, a midwife, or another healthcare professional. All should strive for a “Breastfeeding-Friendly Practice” in which to care for these families.)
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