{"id":49630,"date":"2024-07-30T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gomedii.com\/blogs\/english\/?p=49630"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T07:20:32","slug":"world-breastfeeding-week-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gomedii.com\/blogs\/english\/international-health-news\/world-breastfeeding-week-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"World Breastfeeding Week 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Observed every year in the first week of August, the goal of this celebration of <\/span>World Breastfeeding Week<\/b> is to inform the people of society of the numerous benefits that breastfeeding could offer a mother, as well as the baby that she is carrying in her womb.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intervention, promotion, and support to breastfeeding is an international network recognized globally known as the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action Abbreviated as WABA. WABA hosts this event annually. It guarantees that help reaches the right individuals at the right places along the journey by collaborating with UNICEF and the World Health Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, due to a number of obstacles, working women could not get the assistance they need to continue nursing their children. With so much work pressure, stress, family problems, and numerous other issues of the present life, mothers can quite easily reach the conclusion that nursing is not at all possible in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the mothers with small children they should be allowed to breast-feed their infants as long as they want to. Therefore, Breastfeeding Week seems to be an endeavor towards creating awareness of these advantages for well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is it?<\/b><\/p>\n

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One of the safest methods for preserving a child’s<\/a> life is breastfeeding. Despite WHO recommendations to the contrary, fewer than half of children under six months old receive only breast milk.<\/span><\/p>\n

For newborns, breastfeeding is the finest food. It is hygienic<\/a>, safe, and contains antibodies that protect against several common pediatric infections. At birth for the first few months, the exclusive source of nutrition and energy for the baby is breast milk. It can make up for the nutrients<\/a> missing in a child\u2019s diet in the second year of growth<\/a> and about half the latter half of the first year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Children who are breastfed also have a higher IQ. They also have a lower risk of being overweight<\/a>, obese, and getting diabetes<\/a>. Also, breastfeeding reduces the chances of getting breast or ovarian cancer in women.<\/span><\/p>\n

Efforts to encourage women worldwide to exclusively breastfeed their babies are at risk. They are threatened by the marketing of breast milk<\/a> substitutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aims of World Breastfeeding Week<\/b><\/p>\n

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