Infant Feeding Guidelines

• Reach:

  NT

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Not specified

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

The purpose of the Infant Feeding Guidelines is to assist all health staff in the Northern Territory (NT) to provide appropriate and consistent nutrition advice and support to families and caregivers about feeding infants.

Contacts

Child Health Nutritionist
Ph: (08) 8922 7810

Related publications

Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services (2005)

Northern Territory infant feeding guidelines.

Darwin: Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services

The purpose of the Infant Feeding Guidelines is to assist all health staff in the Northern Territory (NT) to provide appropriate and consistent nutrition advice and support to families and caregivers about feeding infants. These are population guidelines and apply to all healthy, term (greater than thirty-seven weeks gestation) infants. The overriding message of the guidelines, which is in line with current NHMRC recommendation, is to support and promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, and to commence appropriate complementary feeding at about 6 months of age, with continued breastfeeding throughout the first year of life and beyond, as long as mutually desired. Overall the document promotes that improving infant feeding practices is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

• Links
• View report: Northern Territory infant feeding guidelines (PDF - 112.3 KB)
• View website: Northern Territory Department of Health and Families

Links

• View website: Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families