Baby Friendly Hospitals – The experiene of Norway, 1999

The purpose of the project is to map the implementation of the Mother-Child-Friendly Initiative (MBVI), by comparing the responses of the new mothers and responses from the hospitals. The data set thus consists of two files - one from mothers and from the hospitals. MBVI was implemented in Norwegian hospitals during the period 1993-1996. The main features of the survey is to examine breastfeeding guidance and monitoring of mothers at Norwegian maternity wards. MBVI aims to facilitate successful breastfeeding. The survey shows that there is an significant improvement in both health care routines and breastfeeding guidance, since the project's start-up in 1993. The project can be interpreted together with the WHO / UNICEF project "Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding".