Definition of Terms.
Section 3
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms.—For purposes of this Act, the following definitions are adopted: a) Age of gestation—the length of time the fetus is inside the mother's womb. b) Bottlefeeding—the method of feeding an infant using a bottle with artificial nipples, the contents of which can be any type of fluid. c) Breastfeeding—the method of feeding an infant directly from the human breast. d) Breastmilk—the human milk from a mother. e) Expressed breastmilk—the human milk which has been extracted from the breast by hand or by breast pump. It can be fed to an infant using a dropper, a nasogatric tube, a cup and spoon, or a bottle. f) Formula feeding—the feeding of a newborn with infant formula usually by bottlefeeding. It is also called artificial feeding. g) Health institutions—are hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers, or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services, h) Health personnel—are professionals and workers who manage and/or administer the entire operation of health institutions and/or who are involved in providing maternal and child health services. i) Infant—a child within zero (0) to twelve (12) months of age. j) Infant formula—the breastmilk substitute formulated industrially in accordance with applicable Codex Alimentarius standards, to satisfy the normal nutritional requirements of infants up to six (6) months of age, and adopted to their physiological characteristics. k) Lactation management—the general care of a mother-infant nursing couple during the mother's prenatal, immediate postpartum and postnatal periods. It deals with educating and providing knowledge and information to pregnant and lactating mothers on the advantages of breastfeeding, the physiology of lactation, the establishment and maintenance of lactation, the proper care of the breasts and nipples, and such rother matters that would contribute to successful breastfeeding. 1) Low birth weight infant—a newborn weighing less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) grams at birth. m) Mother's milk—the breastmilk from the newborn's own mother. n) Rooming-in—the practice of placing the newborn in the same room as the mother right after delivery up to discharge to facilitate mother-infant bonding and to initiate breastfeeding. The infant may either share the mother's bed or be placed in a crib beside the mother. o) Seriously ill mothers—are those who are: with severe infections; in shock; in severe cardiac or respiratory distress; or dying; or those with other conditions that may be determined by the attending physician as serious. p) Wet-nursing—the feeding of a newborn from another mother's breast when his/her own mother cannot breastfeed.