1. Informing all mothers and parents with a risk of premature birth about breastfeeding and pumping |
2. Skin-to-skin contact in the delivery room with gradations (If skin-to-skin contact is not possible in the delivery room, touching the child and at least seeing the child directly after birth) |
3. Initiation of lactation within one to four hours after birth, latest within six hours after birth with the gold standard to combine pumping and manual milk expression |
4. Colostrum as the first feeding and no formula feeding |
5. Maintain lactation with a pumping frequency of at least eight to ten times in 24 h three days after birth and reach at least a milk volume of 500 ml/day on day 14 days post-partum |
6. Continuously checking maternal need for lactation support to enable early recognition of lactation problems and motivate mothers |
7. Unlimited access to the child |
8. Continuous, regular skin-to-skin contact |
9. Early breast-to-mouth contact and transition to breastfeeding |
10. Mother’s own milk as the gold standard |