Breastfeeding | search
Click here to view Breastfeeding news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share
Breastfeeding improves IQ, school attendance, and is associated with higher income in adult life. (1) Improving child development and reducing health costs through breastfeeding results in economic gains for individual families as well as at the national level. More @Wikipedia
Get the latest news about Breastfeeding from the top news sites, aggregators and blogs. Also included are videos, photos, and websites related to Breastfeeding.
Hover over any link to get a description of the article. Please note that search keywords are sometimes hidden within the full article and don't appear in the description or title.
- Infant and young child feeding - World Health Organization (WHO)Breastfeeding improves IQ, school attendance, and is associated with higher income in adult life. (1) Improving child development and reducing health costs through breastfeeding results in economic gains for individual families as well as at the national level.
- Ten steps to successful breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The Ten Steps summarize a package of policies and procedures that facilities providing maternity and newborn services should implement to support breastfeeding. WHO has called upon all ...
- Ten steps to successful breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)Although breastfeeding protects against undernutrition and overweight, only 44% of infants under 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed. High sodium consumption (>5 g salt/day) contributes to high blood pressure and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.
- Breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO actively promotes breastfeeding as the best source of nourishment for infants and young children, and is working to increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months up to at least 50% by 2025. WHO and UNICEF created the Global Breastfeeding Collective to rally political, legal, financial, and public support for breastfeeding.
- Breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)Breastfeeding has to be learned and many women encounter difficulties at the beginning. Many routine practices, such as separation of mother and baby, use of newborn nurseries, and supplementation with infant formula, actually make it harder for mothers and babies to breastfeed.
More
