Breastfeeding is the foundation to good nutrition and the key to achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030.
To achieve optimal growth, development and good health, the World Health Organisation recommends breastfeeding in the first hour of life, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and thereafter nutritionally adequate complementary foods, while breastfeeding continues up to two years of age or beyond. Breastfeeding is a child’s first immunisation against death, disease and poverty. Breastfeeding saves lives, reduces the risks of mortality and morbidity.
The inappropriate or aggressive marketing of breast milk substitutes undermines breastfeeding worldwide, thereby emphasising the need to enforce the international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes. ‘The Code’ provides a set of standards to regulate activities of the breast milk substitute industry.
All over Nigeria, many mothers all have the opportunity to get answers instantly to their breastfeeding challenges.
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