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Evidence and guidance recorded here: the 2025 US recommendation on counselling to support breastfeeding; the 2017 guideline on support in maternity facilities (Recommendation 1 asks that early and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact be facilitated and encouraged as soon as possible after birth); the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative; a large breastfeeding promotion trial in Belarus; and the MedlinePlus and NIH safe sleep pages, which list feeding human milk among the steps that lower the risk of SIDS. The recipient is mother and infant; claims keep the two apart. Pages in this atlas on donor milk for very low birth weight infants, breast pumps, mastitis and the international marketing code for breast-milk substitutes sit under this hub. 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