CDC National Survey of Maternity Care Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC)

The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has established increasing breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support as national policy. Healthy People 2020 has four objectives and five sub-objectives dedicated to improving initiation, duration, and exclusivity of breastfeeding. The Surgeon General\u2019s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding set forth 6 actions specifically related to health care that further highlight that the intrapartum hospital stay is an influential experience relative to breastfeeding201