[Methodical approaches to the promotion and maintenance of breast-feeding (author's transl)]

In the last years work done in the field of child nutrition has shown the great advantage of breast-feeding as to artificial feeding. Therefore it is necessary to seek new ways to promote this type of feeding which is continuously falling. It could be shown that by an intensive health education in the public, in the obstetric clinics, and in the family, the disposition of the mothers to breast-feed can be raised even nowadays by convincing them of its value. This aim will be best supported by intensive teaching in the neonatal clinics of breast-feeding and of application of the system "ad libitum", in the clinic and even more after returning home. At home this system of nutrition is important for the maintenance of breastfeeding in the first weeks and even longer.