Breastfeeding Promotion and Education-Maternal Health

Care Providers and Maternal Health Care Facilities. For purposes of this Section, maternal health care providers means a physician, midwife, or other authorized practitioner attending a pregnant woman; and maternal health care facility includes hospitals and freestanding birthing centers providing perinatal services. Every maternal health care provider and maternal health care facility shall:

(a)provide pregnant women and new mothers, where appropriate as determined by the attending physician, with information on breastfeeding and the benefits to the child;

(b)provide pregnant women and new mothers, where appropriate as determined by the attending physician, with information on local breastfeeding support groups and Department of Public Health and Social Services programs; and

(c)every licensed physician who provides obstetrical or gynecological consultation shall, where appropriate as determined by such physician, inform patients as to the prenatal preparation for and postnatal benefits of breastfeeding a child. COL10312014 CH. 92A NANA YAN PATGON ACT