Section 3. Section 3 of Republic Act No. 7600 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"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)Breastmilk substitute — any food being marketed or otherwise represented as partial or total replacement of breastmilk whether or not suitable for that purpose.

"f)Donor milk — the human milk from a non-biological mother.

"g)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 nasogastric tube, a cup and spoon, or a bottle.

"h)Expressing milk — the act of extracting human milk from the breast by hand or by pump into a container.

"i)Formula feeding — the feeding of a newborn with infant formula usually by bottlefeeding. It is also called artificial feeding.

"j)Health institutions — are hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers, or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services.

"k)Health personnel — are professionals and workers who manage and/or administer the entire operations of health institutions and/or who are involved in providing maternal and child health services.

"l)Health workers — all persons who are engaged in health and health-related work, and all persons employed in all hospitals, sanitaria, health infirmaries, health centers, rural health units, barangay health stations, clinics and other health-related establishments, whether government or private, and shall include medical, allied health professional, administrative and support personnel employed regardless of their employment status.

"m)Infant — a child within zero (0) to twelve (12) months of age.

"n)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.

"o)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 risks associated with breastmilk substitutes and milk products not suitable as breastmilk substitutes such as, but not limited to, condensed milk and evaporated milk, the monitoring of breastfeeding mothers by health workers and breastfeeding peer counselors for service patients to ensure compliance with the Department of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on the implementation of breastfeeding policies, the physiology of lactation, the establishment and maintenance of lactation, the proper care of the breasts and nipples, and such other matters that would contribute to successful breastfeeding.

"p)Lactation stations — private, clean, sanitary, and well-ventilated rooms or areas in the workplace or public places where nursing mothers can wash up, breastfeed or express their milk comfortably and store this afterward.

"q)Low birth weight infant — a newborn weighing less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) grams at birth.

"r)Nursing employee — any female worker, regardless of employment status, who is breastfeeding her infant and/or young child.

"s)Mother's milk — the breastmilk from the newborn's own mother.

"t)Non-health facilities, establishment or institution — public places and working places, as defined in subparagraphs (u) and (y), respectively.

"u)Public place — enclosed or confined areas such as schools, public transportation terminals, shopping malls, and the like.

"v)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.

"w)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.

"x)Wet-nursing — the feeding of a newborn from another mother's breast when his/her own mother cannot breastfeed.

"y)Workplace — work premises, whether private enterprises or government agencies, including their subdivisions, instrumentalities and government-owned and -controlled corporations.

"z)Young child — a child from the age of twelve (12) months and one (1) day up to thirty-six (36) months."