CDC Vital Signs: Breastfeeding Support Improves in Many U.S. Hospitals

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Vital Signs Issue: October 2015

Breastfeeding Support Improves in Many U.S. Hospitals Hospital support for breastfeeding has improved since 2007, according to the latest CDC Vital Signs report released today. The percentage of U.S. hospitals using a majority of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, the global standard for hospital care to support breastfeeding, increased from approximately 29 percent in 2007 to 54 percent in 2013, a nearly two-fold increase over six years. Improved hospital care could increase rates of breastfeeding nationwide and contribute to healthier children.   “Breastfeeding has immense health benefits for babies and their mothers,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.  “More hospitals are better supporting new moms to breastfeed -- every newborn should have the best possible start in life.”       This Vital Signs report examined data from CDC’s national survey, Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC), which measures the percentage of U.S. hospitals with practices that are consistent with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The Ten Steps are measures of a hospital’s breastfeeding support before, during, and after a mother’s hospital stay.   For more information about CDC’s work to improve hospital practices to support breastfeeding, visit www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding. For more information about breastfeeding rates, state programs and other activities to support breastfeeding, please visit www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/promotion.      Vital Signs is a CDC report that appears on the first Tuesday of the month as part of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR. The report provides the latest data and information on key health indicators. These are cancer prevention, obesity, tobacco use, motor vehicle passenger safety, prescription drug overdose, HIV/AIDS, alcohol use, healthcare-associated infections, cardiovascular health, teen pregnancy, and food safety.   Vital Signs is a monthly report that appears as part of the CDC journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Learn More!

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