International Documents
Retrieve International Documents
Download and print each of these international documents. (These are only the tip of the iceberg of what you’ll need.) Then, organize these documents. A 3-ring binder works well. Read and review these documents over the next several weeks.
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. Any or all of the protocols on their site. http://www.bfmed.org
- Clinical Competencies for the Practice of IBCLCs. http://iblce.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/clinical-competencies.pdf
- Code of Professional Conduct for IBCLCs. http://iblce.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/code-of-professional-conduct.pdf
- Scope of Practice for IBCLCs. http://iblce.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/scope-of-practice.pdf
- Bellagio Consensus http://www.linkagesproject.org/LAMCD/publicationsconE.htm
- UNICEF and World Health Organization. Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; 1990.https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-baby-friendly-hospitals
- World Health Organization. International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes; 1981. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/code_english.pdf
- World Health Organization and UNICEF. Innocenti Declaration: On the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding; 1990. http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1990-Innocenti-Declaration.pdf
- World Health Organization. Child Growth Standards, Age 0 to 5; 2010. http://www.who.int/childgrowth/en/
- World Health Organization. Acceptable Medical Reasons for the Use of Breast-milk Substitutes; 2009. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/69938/WHO_FCH_CAH_09.01_eng.pdf?sequence=1
- World Health Organization. Breastfeeding and maternal medication. Recommendations for drugs in the eleventh WHO model list of essential drugs. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/62435/55732.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Infant and Young Children Feeding, 2003. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/42590/9241562218.pdf?sequence=1
- World Health Organization & UNICEF Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/HIV_IF_decision_maker.pdf
(Note: We check these links just before we print them, but the World Health Organization frequently changes their links! You may need to Google the document title if the link doesn’t get you to where you need to be.)