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SUMMARY:World Breastfeeding Week
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBreastfeeding provides every child with the best possible start in life. It delivers health, nutritional and emotional benefits to both children and mothers. And it forms part of a sustainable food system. But while breastfeeding is a natural process, it is not always easy. Mothers need support – both to get started and to sustain breastfeeding.\n\n \nWhy is World Breastfeeding Week important\nWorld Breastfeeding Week aims to highlight the huge benefits that breastfeeding can bring to the health and welfare of babies and benefits to maternal health, focusing on good nutrition, poverty reduction, and food security.\nSkilled counselling services can ensure that mothers and families receive this support, along with the information, the advice, and the reassurance they need to nourish their babies optimally. Breastfeeding counselling can help mothers to build confidence while respecting their individual circumstances and choices. Counselling can empower women to overcome challenges and prevent feeding and care practices that may interfere with optimal breastfeedings, such as the provision of unnecessary liquids, foods, and breastmilk substitutes to infants and young children.\n \nHow to observe World Breastfeeding Week\n\nTo support mothers through peer groups to promote, establish, and carry on breastfeeding by informing families of the benefits of Peer Counseling.\nTo educate and train health care practitioners to provide support to mothers and babies in effective ways.\nCall governments to action to recognise the importance of the protection and promotion of breastfeeding and provide legislation to support a breastfeeding mother.\nTo deepen knowledge within the community to enhance, promote, and protect breastfeeding.\n\n\n \n____________________________________________________\n\n\nTip:\n\n\n\n“Empowering parents” requires relevant, up-to-date information, education, and support to create an enabling environment, where mothers can feel empowered and supported to breastfeed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n____________________________________________________\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\nIn order to celebrate today effectively, here is a list of resources you can use to make the day special – or to plan ahead \n \n\nReasons to support breastfeeding\nBreastfeeding toolkit\n\n \nReference Sites\n\nUN and other international NGO\nNon-Profits website for the observance\n\n\n
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