As of: February 28, 2024, 12:30 p.m
By: Tanja Brinkmann
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Happy about the certificate: (from left) Managing Director Frank Niederbühl, Sofie Brandtner, Judit Szabo, Manuela Pröbstl (Head of Quality Management), Stefanie Joner, Karin Brzeski, Karina Majchrzak (Project Management Baby-Friendly Maternity Clinic), Johanna Scheffler, Senior Physician Dr.
Sabine Trummler, Mandy Fiedler, chief physician Dr.
Rainer Wahl, senior midwife Sabine Legl-Türk, nursing director Gisela Gehring and Monika Schneider, the nursing manager of the mother-child center.
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Baby-friendly – that is the slogan that gynecology and obstetrics at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic adheres to.
To achieve this, doctors, nurses and everyone else are pulling together and have now successfully been certified.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
– Many things were already standard at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic.
It has long been customary for the baby to be placed on the mother's stomach immediately after birth.
And that healthy newborns stay with their mother day and night.
The doctors and nurses in gynecology and obstetrics also provide all possible support when it comes to breastfeeding and developing a close bond.
In order to guarantee the girls and boys the best possible start in life, the hospital on Auenstrasse has now undergone certification.
With success.
Now the processes are standardized, the entire team pulls together, is on the same page and passes this on to the mothers and fathers.
In addition, more is being done to optimally support the relationship between mother and child, the start of breastfeeding or nutrition that promotes bonding in other ways.
World Health Organization guidelines
Mothers who have their second or third child in the hospital confirm that this is successful.
“They are positively surprised,” says senior physician Dr.
Sabine Trummler.
You experience even more care – “from birth onwards in the delivery room or operating room,” emphasizes chief physician Dr.
Rainer Wahl.
“The certificate was a means to an end for us,” he explains.
“We wanted standardization for the period after birth, wanted everyone to work according to the same concept and the same criteria.” The process is based on the ten guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.
These criteria are scientifically based and enable the effective promotion of the bond between mother and newborn, child development and breastfeeding, explains Manuela Pröbstl (Head of Quality Management).
To achieve this, “everything had to be adjusted and a lot of documentation was necessary.”
Feels comfortable in the bonding sack: newborn Hannah in her crib next to her mother's bed.
© GAP Hospital
Now the babies and mothers are welded closely together from the start.
Bonding is the key word, translated it means connection.
This occurs because “the child lies naked with its mother for a relatively long time,” explains project manager Karina Majchrzak.
Usually 48 hours – “of course not all the time”.
For this purpose, the clinic has purchased so-called bonding bags in which the babies can be wrapped when they are lying in their extra bed or can be covered on their mother's stomach.
“It also makes work easier for us,” emphasizes Majchrzak.
Ultimately, this eliminates the tedious task of undressing and dressing babies when they are examined in the presence of their parents.
They were “very enthusiastic” about it.
Even more emphasis is placed on the topic of breastfeeding.
“We have specially set up a breastfeeding room in which a nurse is available all day to support the mothers,” says Monika Schneider, the nursing manager of the mother-child center.
In order to help them with questions after discharge - "around 85 percent now go home breastfeeding, previously it was a maximum of 50 percent," adds Majchrzak - there is now a breastfeeding telephone and a breastfeeding café.
All departments pull together
The inspectors were in the house for three days, observing the processes and, above all, talking a lot with patients.
“We also checked how things were going at home and whether everything was okay,” says head midwife Sabine Legl-Türk.
It has, because the certificate is now available.
Baby-friendly is a quality criterion for the staff.
Once you've worked like this, you don't want anything else.
“We have already received applications because of this,” emphasizes Schneider.
Everyone who pulls together in an interdisciplinary manner agrees that it is a high standard.
“We don’t want to get away from that anymore,” says Majchrzak.