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Promoting Breastfeeding Support: A Community Approach

Encourage exclusive breastfeeding through support groups. Limit pacifier use. Improve infant health outcomes. Study on peer counselors' impact on breastfeeding duration.

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Promoting Breastfeeding Support: A Community Approach

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  2. 25/20 Step nine • Give no artificial teats or pacifiers* to breastfeeding infants • * also called dummies and soothers

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  4. 25/22 Step ten • Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from hospital or clinic

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  6. 80% 70% 70% 60% 50% Exclusively breastfeeding 5 month old infants 40% Percentage 30% 20% 6% 10% 0% Project area Control Adapted from Haider R, Ashworth A, Kabir I, Huttly S. Lancet, 2000;356:1643-7. 25/24 Effect of trained peer counsellors on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding

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