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Dr. Lara Antkowiak identified breastfeeding as a key intervention to vastly improve the ability of a CHOP program to help families prevent illness and promote health in the Dominican Republic.
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The recently opened Mothers’ Milk Bank at CHOP allows mothers to contribute, in an important way, to the health of other babies in the N/IICU whose mothers cannot produce enough milk.
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CHOP is the first non-BFHI hospital in the state recognized by the Department of Health for commitment to breastfeeding.
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Diane Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, director of CHOP's Breastfeeding and Lactation Program, spends two weeks in India teaching importance of breast milk for vulnerable infants.
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Despite the known advantages of breast milk for premature infants, not all leave the hospital on a human milk diet. A new study examines why.
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New on-site milk bank will enhance process of providing human milk to vulnerable infants.
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CHOP Lactation Director Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, shared her 10-step model for breastfeeding support to vulnerable infants at the Third Annual International Conference on Breastfeeding Sick Babies in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The journal Breastfeeding Medicine published two articles by lactation experts at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. One article details human milk rates for infants born with congenital heart diseases, while the other discusses the positive outcomes of CHOP’s employee lactation program.
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Human milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it’s also medicine. CHOP experts cover this topic in a neonatal nursing journal’s special issue focused on human milk for sick newborns.
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is developing a nonprofit human milk bank for hospitalized infants. The program, part of CHOP's Breastfeeding and Lactation Program, is expected to open in late summer of 2015.