Breastfeeding Basics: Breastfeeding Around the World

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants should be able to identify the World Health Organization's "Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding."

2. Participants should be able to describe the importance of breastfeeding in the developing world.

Contents of This Module

1. Pre-module Evaluation

2. The History of Breastfeeding
   • Breast Milk Substitutes
   • The International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes
   • The Innocenti Declaration

3. The Importance of Breastfeeding in the Developing World
   • Economics
   • Sanitation
   • Preparation and Storage of Formula
   • Reasons not to Breastfeed
   • Case Study 11
   • Maternal Infections
   • Statistics on Breastfeeding around the world

4. Breastfeeding Recommendations
   • Baby Friendly Hospitals

5. Disaster Situations
   • Case Study 12
   • Case Study 13

6. Post-module Evaluation

7. References