Ensuring Optimal Nutrition for Infants
Infant feeding and nutrition are two of the many important discussions your pregnant patients will have with you as you counsel them before and after the birth of their babies.
In fact, ensuring optimal infant nutrition is a shared responsibility. The government, health care industry, nonprofit and advocacy communities, and the private sector all have an important role to play in this effort and should work together. The PDF below offers more information about this topic.
Ensuring Optimal Infant Nutrition: A Shared Responsibility (305 KB) Using the Infant & New Mother Nutrition Center
At Abbott Nutrition, we support all health care professionals in their efforts to help educate and inform new mothers about proper nutrition for themselves and their infants. That's why this section offers a wealth of information and resources to assist you as you help your patients prepare for and manage a nutritious daily infant feeding routine.
From details about our complete line of
Similac® infant formulas... to information about
Pedialyte® oral electrolyte solution...to specifics about
EleCare®, our amino acid-based medical food... this section will provide you with the product information you seek about Abbott Nutrition products for infants.
There are times, however, when new mothers and infants may face challenges to appropriate nutrition— from colic and diarrhea to food allergies, short bowel syndrome, and eosinophilic GI disorders. To access information about our oral and tube-feeding products for these and other conditions, please visit our
gastrointestinal information section.
Abbott Nutrition Supports Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is the ideal first food and the first choice of millions of new moms. Providing the best information on good nutrition—in all its forms—is our partnership commitment.
Abbott Nutrition honors and supports mothers everywhere—especially during
World Breastfeeding Week. This year, we again offer helpful
education materials that you can distribute to your mothers-to-be, new moms, and WIC® participants to encourage them as they learn to breastfeed.
To make an informed choice, every mother must have access to credible information on all feeding options that are available and must be supported in her decision.
As advocates for the health and nutritional well-being of babies and mothers, we also seek to help ease a mother's transition back to work outside the home. The downloadable tools in our Infant & New Mother Nutrition Center can be helpful to you as you guide your patients through this key transition. These PDFs explain the benefits of workplace
lactation programs and include easy-to-use
templates that your patients can share with their employers.
Nutritional Needs of Babies in NICU
Before giving birth, many women know they may encounter circumstances such as preterm delivery, delivering multiple babies, or having a Cesarean section. Even in these
special situations, breastfeeding may still be possible. As a health care professional, you can help prepare your patients before these events occur, or soon after delivery, to help assure success. This section provides information to help your health care colleagues, lactation consultants, and others discuss such situations.
Products to Grow On
To help you gain quick access to detailed information about Abbott Nutrition solutions for infants, we've organized our products into the following categories:
