(11) Assurance of women and child-friendly spaces during calamities, disasters,
or other emergencies;
(12) Provision of support to fathers and caregivers to ensure their commitment
to support the mother and the child on proper health and nutrition care and
provide necessary counselling and positive parenting support interventions;
(13) Counselling and support to parents and caregivers on parent/caregiverinfant/child interaction for responsive care and early stimulation for early
childhood development; and
(14) Others as may be determined based on international and national
guidelines and evidence generated locally.
(c) Postpartum and Lactating Women. - Health and nutrition services at the facility and
community level shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Follow-up visits to health facilities where they gave birth;
(2) Home visits for women in difficult-to-reach communities especially if located
in a GIDA;
(3) Lactation support and counselling from birth up to two (2) years and beyond,
including those women who will return to work and for women in the informal
economies, and those with breastfeeding difficulties;
(4) Nutrition assessment and counselling to meet the demands of lactation in
health facilities and workplaces;
(5) Identification and management of malnutrition of chronically energy deficient
(CED) and nutritionally-at-risk postpartum and lactating women, including
adolescent mothers, and provision of RUSF in addition to dietary
supplementation, as appropriate;
(6) Organization of community-based mother support groups and peer
counsellors for breastfeeding in cooperation with other health and nutrition
workers;
(7) Lactation breaks for women in the workplaces including micro, small and
medium enterprises;
(8) Availability of lactation stations in the workplaces, both in government and in
the private sector, informal economy workplaces, and in public places and
public means of transportation as stipulated in Republic Act No. 10028,
otherwise known as the "Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009" and
its implementing rules and regulations;
(9) Organization of breastfeeding support groups in workplaces, in cooperation
with occupational health workers and human resource managers trained in
lactation management for the workplace;