Every child has the right to basic nutrition, shelter and health care.
As we celebrate breastfeeding week, let us support women to breastfeed anytime and anywhere.
In November 2016, the United Nation made a statement on the urgency for countries to support, promote, and protect breastfeeding.
Studies show that colostrum is beneficial for the health of newborn babies. Nnenne, a breastfeeding mother, shares her knowledge about colostrum.
Sallieu Sesay reviews the benefits of breastfeeding. Do mothers really know the secret to a bright, strong and healthy child? The answer is right here. Breast milk.
One week into her new job, Mercy Chirwa learned she was pregnant. It was 2012, and she’d just been hired as an Office Assistant for a certain organization that deals with agriculture and nutrition in…
Individual experts, institutions, civil society including UN agencies are this week reminding everyone the importance of breastfeeding. It is August 1-7. In this short blog we would like to share…
Today marks the end of the Worlds Breast Feeding Week which was from 1st to 7th August. I must say I have learnt a lot knowing how important it is to breast feed. As a youth myself, we have mixed…
“The counsellor convinced me to breast feed my baby up to six months with no additional food. She taught me how to position my baby to the breast, she taught me a lot, and breast milk is the best…
It is that time of the year again when Malawi joins the rest of the world to celebrate breastfeeding for one whole week. This year breastfeeding is being celebrated under the theme: breastfeeding a…
Inverted nipples can make breastfeeding a difficult experience for both a new mother and her newborn, and this could prevent the opportunity of exclusive breastfeeding. Here's all you need to…
The Minister of Health, Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah, has launched the National Newborn Strategy and Action Plan to guide newborn delivery and care in the country.
The intervention focuses on exclusive breastfeeding by promoting behavioural change of some harmful cultural practices and beliefs such as discarding colostrums, giving of prelacteral feeds and delay…
This report, published by Save the Children, uses latest evidence to explain how breastfeeding saves lives and what the rates of breastfeeding practices are across the world. The report goes onto…
Ugwu Faith Ugoma is a first time mother, and her baby is just four months old. During the flag off of this year’s breastfeeding week in Abuja, I interviewed Ugoma who told me about her challenges on…
Breastfeeding is one of the best ways a mother can give her baby the healthiest start to life. By putting an infant to the breast within an hour of birth, and thereafter maintaining this as the sole…
The fact of the matter remains that breast milk is good for babies. What you might not know is how breast feeding is important. So what we are going to discuss here are the benefits of breast feeding…
