Our Baby-Friendly Promise
Learn about our commitment to infant feeding support.
Sinai Health respects and supports all families in their infant feeding decisions. We encourage families to breastfeed, chestfeed or provide human milk to their babies unless medically contraindicated.
We promise our families that we will:
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- Provide education and support to individualize your infant feeding decisions
- Help you to hold your baby skin-to-skin as soon as possible after birth, with the goal of uninterrupted skin-to-skin for at least one hour
- Follow evidence-based infant feeding policies and provide information on different ways to feed your baby if requested or required
- Help you and your baby learn to breastfeed or chestfeed, if you choose, as early as possible after birth (ideally within one to six hours)
- Encourage you to follow your baby’s cues and feed whenever your baby wants
- Support you to build and maintain your milk supply with regular feedings and hand expression
- Ensure your baby stays with you, unless you or your baby requires extra medical support
- Prioritize human milk for your baby; human milk substitutes/infant formula will only be given with your consent when medically indicated
- Provide you with a list of community resources prior to discharge from the hospital to ensure you have infant feeding support at home, with the goal of continuing breastfeeding/chestfeeding
- Ensure our people are educated on how to assist you with all methods of infant feeding and hand expression
Our Baby-Friendly Promise for NICU Families
Sinai Health respects and supports all families in their infant feeding decisions. We encourage families to breastfeed, chestfeed or provide human milk to their babies unless medically contraindicated.
We promise our families that we will:
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- Provide education and support to individualize your infant feeding decisions
- Help you to hold your baby skin-to-skin as soon as possible after birth, with the goal of uninterrupted skin-to-skin for at least one hour
- Follow evidence-based infant feeding policies and provide information on different ways to feed your baby, if requested or required
- Help you and your baby learn to breastfeed or chestfeed, if you choose, as early as possible after birth (ideally within one to six hours)
- Encourage you to follow your baby’s cues and feed whenever your baby wants
- Support you to build and maintain your milk supply with regular feedings and hand expression
- Ensure your baby stays with you, unless you or your baby requires extra medical support
- Prioritize human milk for your baby; human milk substitutes/infant formula will only be given with your consent when medically indicated
- Provide you with a list of community resources prior to discharge from the hospital to ensure you have infant feeding support at home with the goal of continuing breastfeeding/chestfeeding
- Ensure our people are educated on how to assist you with all methods of infant feeding and hand expression