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DHMC is Designated a 'Baby-Friendly' Hospital
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Dr. Bonny Whalen, Dartmouth Health Children's pediatrician, medical director of the Newborn Nursery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and a certified lactation consultant, discusses the Baby-Friendly® initiative.
In June 2012, DHMC received recognition as a Baby-Friendly birth facility, as designated by Baby-Friendly USA, Inc.
In DHMC's Birthing Pavilion, the practice is to keep baby and parents together in the same room, where most screenings and procedures are done.
"Our parents expressed relief and a sense of security that they're able to keep the baby with them just about all of the time," says DHMC Lactation Coordinator Lisa Lamadriz. She added that such rooming-in lowers separation stress on the baby as well, and gives new parents a full opportunity to learn the baby's needs and rhythms.
Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., is the U.S. authority for the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.
The initiative encourages and recognizes hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and their babies. The prestigious international award recognizes birth facilities that offer breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence, and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies.
Baby-Friendly® hospitals and birth centers also uphold the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes by offering parents support, education, and educational materials that promote the use of human milk rather than other infant food or drinks, and by refusing to accept or distribute free or subsidized supplies of breast milk substitutes, nipples, and other feeding devices.
Dartmouth Health Children’s is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by CHaD - Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH - Dartmouth Health Children’s promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children’s conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled and collaborative child health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at CHaD and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester. Primary care appointments in general pediatrics are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Bedford, Concord, Lebanon, Manchester and Nashua, NH and Bennington, VT; as well as at Dartmouth Health members: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Cheshire Medical Center, New London Hospital and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center.
For more information about Dartmouth Health Children’s, visit
In June 2012, DHMC received recognition as a Baby-Friendly birth facility, as designated by Baby-Friendly USA, Inc.
In DHMC's Birthing Pavilion, the practice is to keep baby and parents together in the same room, where most screenings and procedures are done.
"Our parents expressed relief and a sense of security that they're able to keep the baby with them just about all of the time," says DHMC Lactation Coordinator Lisa Lamadriz. She added that such rooming-in lowers separation stress on the baby as well, and gives new parents a full opportunity to learn the baby's needs and rhythms.
Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., is the U.S. authority for the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.
The initiative encourages and recognizes hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and their babies. The prestigious international award recognizes birth facilities that offer breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence, and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies.
Baby-Friendly® hospitals and birth centers also uphold the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes by offering parents support, education, and educational materials that promote the use of human milk rather than other infant food or drinks, and by refusing to accept or distribute free or subsidized supplies of breast milk substitutes, nipples, and other feeding devices.
Dartmouth Health Children’s is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by CHaD - Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH - Dartmouth Health Children’s promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children’s conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled and collaborative child health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at CHaD and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester. Primary care appointments in general pediatrics are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Bedford, Concord, Lebanon, Manchester and Nashua, NH and Bennington, VT; as well as at Dartmouth Health members: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Cheshire Medical Center, New London Hospital and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center.
For more information about Dartmouth Health Children’s, visit