Every year the world celebrates Breastfeeding Week from August 1 to August 7. It is celebrated in an effort to encourage breastfeeding and to deliver health, nutritional, and emotional benefits to both mothers and children. The week commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, WHO, UNICEF, and other organisations to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. The theme of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2020 is “Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet”.
The infant mortality rate in Karnataka is not on the lighter side of things: it’s 31 for every 1,000 live births. Also, 23 per cent of the babies in the state are born premature. While the relevancy of breast milk for babies over formula milk is rather well known, there exists not even a single […]