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Birth Practices Affect Breastfeeding
WHO and UNICEF recommend that to maximize the establishment of successful breastfeeding, women in labor, regardless of birth setting, should have access to the following practices:
- Care that is sensitive and responsive to the specific beliefs, values, and customs of the mother’s culture, ethnicity and religion;
- Birth companions of her choice who provide emotional and physical support throughout labor and delivery;
- The freedom to walk, move about, and assume the positions of her choice during labor;
- Care by staff trained in non-drug methods of pain relief and who do not promote the use of analgesic or anesthetic drugs unless required by a medical condition;
- Care that minimizes routine practices and procedures that are not supported by scientific evidence including withholding nourishment, early rupture of membranes, routine use of IVs, routine electronic fetal monitoring, episiotomy, and instrumental delivery;
- Care that minimizes invasive procedures such as unnecessary acceleration or induction of labor and medically unnecessary cesarean sections.
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