Abstract: Objective: To establish a standard support and management mode of breastfeeding under the background of medical consortium to improve the rates of breastfeeding within the first six months after children's birth. Methods: Totally 98 mothers were recruited to the experiment group to receive support and management under the background of the medical consortium to promote breastfeeding within the first 6 months after children's birth through developing a transfer sheet of continuous caring for standard breastfeeding and setting up standard training process and supervising network combining both hospitals and communities to help normalize the management over breastfeeding by the medical consortium. And then the effect of the support and management mode on the breastfeeding rates would be compared with that of the previous routine care offered to the control group. Results: After the implementation of the mode under the background of the medical consortium, exclusive breastfeeding rate (51.0% vs 34.3%), satisfaction of home visits [(22.86±3.59) vs (21.37±2.75)] as well as scores of mothers' breastfeeding knowledge [(7.23±0.77) vs (6.98±0.76)] and the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale (BSES) [(55.33±4.68) vs (54.21±2.91)] were all higher than those of the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: The breastfeeding management under the background of medical consortium can effectively improve the efficacy of breastfeeding and increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding within the first 6 months after children's birth.

Key words: medical consortium; maternal; breastfeeding management