World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in every year.
Nearly 175 countries to encourage breastfeeding & improve the health of babies around the world.
It commemorates the Declaration made by WHO ( World Health Organization ) and UNICEF ( United Nations Children's Fund) policy-makers in August 1990 to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.
The breastfeeding is the best way to provide newborns with the nutrients they need.
WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding until a baby is six months old, and continued breastfeeding with the addition of nutritious complementary foods for up to two years or beyond.
World Breastfeeding Week aims:
* Draw attention to the value of continuing to breastfeed children to two years or beyond.
* Raise awareness of the risks & costs of introducing other foods & drinks to breastfed babies before six months, thereby strengthening support for six months exclusive breastfeeding.
* Up - date information and ideas about the kinds of other foods & drinks needed by older breastfed babies and young children after six months.
For more details http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/
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