Baby-friendly hospitals in Turkey: evaluation of adherence to the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

Background: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund joint global programme to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. Sustainability of the BFHI standards is important for health facilities and country-level implementation.

Aims: To analyse the 2018-2019 external reassessment results of baby-friendly hospitals (BFHs) in Turkey.

Knowledge level, attitude and own experience of health professionals about breastfeeding and breast milk in a city of Turkey: Cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Worldwide consensus about breastfeeding is that the infant should exclusively be breastfed until six months of life. Despite this, the rate of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of age is low in so many countries including Turkey. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge, the attitudes and the own experiences of health professionals about breastfeeding and breast milk, in a metropolitan city in Turkey.