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The Government of India initiated the nation-wide breastfeeding programme: MAA- Mother’s Absolute Affection, in August 2016. Initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months are the two main goals of the MAA programme. [78] Early Initiation of Breastfeeding in some of the Asian ...
The medical community recommends exclusively breastfeeding infants for 6 months, with nutritional whole food supplementation and continued breastfeeding up to 2 years or older for overall optimal health outcomes. [139] [140] [141] Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as giving an infant only breast milk for six months as a source of food and ...
[19] [20] and from the 2019 revision United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2020–2025, using the medium assumption. [21] The United Nations Population Division , part of the DESA - Department of Economic and Social Affairs , [ 22 ] ranking list is based on the forecast/prediction for the years 2015-2020 and 2020-2025.
Exclusive breastfeeding until six months of age helps to protect an infant from gastrointestinal infections in both developing and industrialized countries. The risk of death due to diarrhea and other infections increases when babies are either partially breastfed or not breastfed at all. [4]
Two early 20th century Korean women breastfeeding their babies while working The history and culture of breastfeeding traces the changing social, medical and legal attitudes to breastfeeding, the act of feeding a child breast milk directly from breast to mouth. Breastfeeding may be performed by the infant's mother or by a surrogate, typically called a wet nurse. Ilkhanate prince Ghazan being ...
The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report ranked India 102nd out of 117 countries with a serious issue of child wasting. At least one in five children under the age of five years in India is wasted. India is one of the fastest growing countries in terms of population and economics, sitting at a population of 1.365 billion and growing at 1.5% ...
Two major global studies in 2015 report maternal mortality in India and contribute to national planning. One study is the Global Burden of Disease Study, which in 2015 for the first time published a national report about India. [58] [59] The other is the 2015 report of the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (UN ...
The continuing of breastfeeding, while introducing solids after 6 months, to 12 months were shown to have an efficiency rate of 92.6 – 96.3 percent in pregnancy prevention. [13] Because of this some women find that breastfeeding interferes with fertility even after ovulation has resumed. The Seven Standards: Phase 1 of Ecological Breastfeeding