On Infant Feeding

 

1. WHO / UNICEF – Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI): Revised, updated and expanded for integrated care

• Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the revised Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative 2018
  • BFHI Section 1: Background and implementation
  • BFHI Section 2: Strengthening and sustaining the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative: A course for decision-makers
  • BFHI Section 3: Breastfeeding Promotion and Support in a Baby-friendly Hospital, a 20-hour course for maternity staff
  • BFHI Section 4: Hospital self-appraisal and monitoring

2. World Health Organization (WHO)

• WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience (2018)
• Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services : Guideline (2017)
• International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
• Innocenti Declaration 2005 on Infant and Young Child Feeding
• Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
• Evidence for the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
• Documents on Infant feeding / breastfeeding listed by year of publication

      3. Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding Website

      4. Breastfeeding Policy (Department of Health, HKSAR)

On Children's Rights

1. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

On Maternity Protection

1. Maternity Protection, Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57), HKSAR
2. International Labour Organization 

• International Labour Standards on Maternity Protection
• Maternity Protection Recommendation 2000