Mother friendly/mother-friendly means that individuals or institutions care for the well-being of mothers, children, and families. It involves encouraging and promoting “evidence-based” practice that is mother and child-friendly.
Maternity hospitals/health centers serve as a strong example for new mothers. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, established in 1991 under the auspices of UNICEF and the World Health Organization, strives to ensure that all maternity hospitals, hospitals, and birth centers are open to and support breastfeeding.
Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative – WHO
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative – UNICEF
Such an approach requires a sufficient number of trained staff who regularly update and upgrade their knowledge. Due to BFHI, mothers may feel pressured into breastfeeding. However, regarding the satisfaction of healthcare professionals with this way of working, the staff themselves believe that it is much more enjoyable to work with breastfeeding, and they have much more self-confidence as BF consultants because they have the knowledge and have learned to apply it in practice.
Thus, we can see that a mother and child-friendly approach can have both positive and some negative effects. Therefore, it is very important that we regularly upgrade and renew our knowledge, as this is the only way we will be able to approach our users in a way that does not frighten them. We must be able to appropriately present the advantages of our approach and also accept their decisions, even if they do not align with our policy, beliefs, and practices. So, when we talk about breastfeeding, we must not forget the mother’s human rights, “Human rights in childbirth,” as she has every right to refuse breastfeeding due to her experiences and beliefs.
We must also educate women.
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“Mother friendly” means that individuals or institutions are responsible for the care and welfare of mothers, children and families. It is about encouraging and promoting “evidence-based” practice that is mother- and child-friendly.
Hospitals and maternity units represent a powerful model for new mothers. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, which was established in 1991 under the patronage of UNICEF and the World Health organization strives to ensure that all maternity hospitals, hospitals, birth centers are open to breast-feeding and are supporting it.Unicef – click
Because of “Baby friendly hospital iniciative” BFHI mothers may feel to be forced with breastfeeding. But health workers are satisfied. They said that it’s a lot of fun to work with breast-feeding, that they have much more confidence as BF consultants because they have the knowledge and they learned to use it in practice.
So we can see that women and children-friendly operation may have positive and also some negative effects. It is therefore very important that our knowledge is regularly upgraded and renewed, because only so we will be able to approach our customers in a way that they will not be frightened. We need to know how to present the advantages of our approach in an appropriate way and also to accept their decisions, if they do not agree with our policy, belief and action. So when we talk about breast-feeding, we should not forget the mother’s human rights “Human rights in childbirth”, who has the right to refuse breast-feeding because of her experience and beliefs.
