NICE, 2008 Consider training peer cont’d supporters and link workers to help mothers, parents and Interventions carers follow professional advice to improve the on feeding infants aged 6 nutrition of months and over. The advice pregnant and should promote an increasingly breastfeeding varied diet using food of mothers and different textures in appropriate amounts (in addition to milk), in children in low-income response to the baby’s needs. households. Midwives, health visitors, National paediatric nurses, nurses Institute for working in special-care Health and baby and neonatal units, and Clinical nursery nurses should: Excellence, -show all breastfeeding mothers how to hand-express breast Maternal health milk. Early years -Advise mothers that expressed milk can be stored for up to 5 Health services days in the main part of a fridge and community at 4ºC or lower, up to 2 weeks settings in the freezer compartment of a fridge, up to 6 months in a domestic freezer, at minus 18ºC or lower. -Advise mothers who wish to expressed breast milk for less than 5
NICE, 2008 cont’d Interventions to improve the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low-income households. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Maternal health Early years Health services and community settings Consider training peer supporters and link workers to help mothers, parents and carers follow professional advice on feeding infants aged 6 months and over. The advice should promote an increasingly varied diet using food of different textures in appropriate amounts (in addition to milk), in response to the baby’s needs. Midwives, health visitors, paediatric nurses, nurses working in special-care baby and neonatal units, and nursery nurses should: -show all breastfeeding mothers how to hand-express breast milk. -Advise mothers that expressed milk can be stored for up to 5 days in the main part of a fridge at 4ºC or lower, up to 2 weeks in the freezer compartment of a fridge, up to 6 months in a domestic freezer, at minus 18ºC or lower. -Advise mothers who wish to expressed breast milk for less than 5
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