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Visual Aid Script The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a program called Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991, which accredit and recognize hospitals that promote, supports breastfeeding and implements The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. (Baby-Friendly USA,2012). Some of the steps include immediately skin to skin after birth, breastfeed within the first hour, Rooming-in, no pacifiers given to baby, show mothers how to breastfeed and establish support groups and refer mothers to them upon discharge. The visual aid is a bar graph created that shows the percent increase of babies born in a Baby-Friendly Hospital from 2007 to 2012. As you can see there was an increase from 2.9% in 2007 to 7.74% in 2012 that occur in Baby-Friendly Hospitals. Currently there are 195 hospitals in the United States that are designated Baby-Friendly (Baby-Friendly USA, 2012). By promoting breastfeeding and teaching mothers about the benefits breastfeeding has on them or their baby it can promote mothers to breastfeed instead of formula feed. Plus make more hospitals become a Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative facility. Visual Aid Rational When I was coming up with my visual aid. I wanted to make the audience aware of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI); and how this may help women towards breastfeeding instead of formula feeding, since Baby-Friendly Hospital promote and teach women about the benefits of breastfeeding. Many people may not be aware that it exists in certain hospitals. I wanted to use a bar graph to show how the percentages of Baby-Friendly Hospitals have increase within the two years 2007 and 2012. In the bar graph I color-coded the bars in different color for each of the years. I marked the percentage on top of the bar to that particular year. The title I wanted it on top of the

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