Remarks

• These recommendations have been integrated from the 2017 WHO guideline, Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services (75), where the overall certainty of evidence was judged to be very low.
• The postnatal care Guideline Development Group noted the following based on existing WHO documents.
• These recommendations provide an enabling environment for sustainable implementation of the Ten steps to successful breastfeeding within health facilities and should be accompanied by the establishment of ongoing monitoring and data-management systems (240).
• Facilities providing maternity and newborn services should fully comply with the International code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes and relevant World Health Assembly resolutions (241).
• Additional recommendations on key clinical practices for women and newborns to successfully establish and maintain breastfeeding are included in the 2017 WHO guideline Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services (75) (see Box 3.13).