Baby-friendly hospitals boost breastfeeding in New Zealand
If you are born in New Zealand, it is highly likely you will be born in hospital, delivered by the same midwife who attended your mother during her pregnancy. It is also highly likely you will be breastfed by your mother right from the start.
When they go home, more than 8 out of 10 newborns in New Zealand today are exclusively breastfed, compared with just over half in 2000. This success is largely down to the country’s efforts to ensure its maternity services are ‘baby friendly’, using criteria set out in the WHO/UNICEF Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI).
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WHO: http://www.who.int/features/2014/new-zealand-breastfeeding/en/