Journey toward Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative designation: Healthcare professional's view on successful implementation process and maintenance of accreditation.

Problem: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative has yet to achieve widespread global implementation.

Background: The implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative has been recognised as complex. The challenge has been to maintain accreditation.

Exclusive breastfeeding, breastfeeding problems, and maternal breastfeeding attitudes before and after the baby-friendly hospital initiative: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Breastfeeding practices remain globally suboptimal despite many known maternal and neonatal health benefits and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative as a global effort to support breastfeeding.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the effects of the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative for a proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfed during a 6-month period, including breastfeeding problems, and maternal breastfeeding attitudes.

Methods: Using a quasi-experimental non-equivalent two-group design, we recruited two independent samples of postpartum mothers in a maternity hospital to compare the situation before (N = 162) and after (N = 163) the implementation.

Maternal perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support in Baby-Friendly hospitals: An integrative review.

Background: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative aims to improve breastfeeding by implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Ten Steps) into routine breastfeeding support in birth hospitals. Maternal perspective to breastfeeding support is important to consider as mothers and their infants are in the center of that support.

Objectives: To review and synthesize the existing literature on maternal perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support in Baby-Friendly hospitals.

Healthcare Professionals' Breastfeeding Attitudes and Hospital Practices During Delivery and in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Pre and Post Implementing the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.

Background: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative represents a global effort to support breastfeeding. Commitment to this program has been associated with the longer duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding and improvements in hospital practices. Further, healthcare professionals' breastfeeding attitudes have been associated with the ability to provide professional support for breastfeeding.

Clinging to closeness: The parental view on developing a close bond with their infants in a NICU.

Objective: To identify and understand how parents develop a close bond to their infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Design: A qualitative descriptive study; closeness and separation stories recorded in a smartphone application by the parents were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Setting And Participants: Twenty-three parents of nineteen infants who were taken care of in a level III NICU in Finland.

Esomeprazole 40 mg administered intravenously has similar safety and efficacy profiles to the oral formulation in patients with erosive esophagitis.

Background/aims: An intravenous formulation of esomeprazole has been developed for use in patients where oral administration is not appropriate. This study evaluated safety after 1 and 4 weeks, and efficacy after 4 weeks' esomeprazole 40 mg once daily treatment, administered via an intravenous injection, intravenous infusion or orally, in patients with erosive esophagitis.

Methods: In this double-blind, multi-centre study, patients with endoscopically confirmed erosive esophagitis (Los Angeles grade A-D) were randomized to receive 1 week's treatment of esomeprazole 40 mg once daily, via a 3-min injection, a 30-min infusion or orally, followed by 3 weeks of open treatment with oral esomeprazole 40 mg once daily.