These guidelines offer practical advice on promoting and supporting breastfeeding and its continuation for at least 6 months.
The topics covered by the guidelines are:
- Benefits and optimum duration of exclusive breastfeeding
- Contraindications to breastfeeding
- Practicves that encourage breastfeeding
- Promoting and supporting breastfeeding
- Use of supplements
- Prevention and solving breastfeeding problems
- Behaviours which pomote and support breastfeeding
- Resumption of everyday activities
- Breastfeeding and nutrition for the mother
- Breastfeeding and medicines
- Breastfeeding and contraception
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