EFFECT OF BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION INTERVENTIONS ON BABY WEIGHT AT 3 MONTHS
Background and aims:
The ‘Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI)’ is based on the ‘Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding’ (WHO/UNICEF 1989) for health services to adopt, in order to effectively promote and support breastfeeding.  Many breastfeeding promotion interventions shown to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding that has an effect on baby growth. In this study, I focus on particular interventions. The aim to find the effect of these interventions on baby weight gain at 3 months
Methods:
Quantitative retrospective data analysis of a sample of 80 mothers and their babies from 800 children followed in the well-baby clinic in Maternity and Children Hospital-Dammam- Saudi Arabia during the period from 1st Sept. to 30 Nov. 2018. A questionnaires survey, phone calls, messages and electronic medical files were used to collect data. All mothers had normal vaginal delivery with normal full term babies. Interventions (SSC(skin to skin contact), education, and support) were evaluated for their effect on baby weight at 3 months. All mothers exclusively breastfed their children 
Collected data were analyzed by using SPSS – descriptive and one-way Anova analysis
Results:
SSC intervention directly affects the weight and significantly increase the weight of the baby with P value (0.00) .Level of confident = 95.
 While education and support does not have any effect on the weight  
 Conclusions:
All women should be encouraged by practicing skin-to-skin contact after delivery. Further evaluation of the effect of support and education on continuation of breastfeeding is needed which also affect the growth of the baby