World Breastfeeding Week: Delhi Moms Facing Serious Problems Breastfeeding


Last week the world celebrated the Breastfeeding week. World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes breast milk as the best nutritional food source for infants. WHO and UNICEF suggest that breastfeeding should be started within one hour of the child’s birth and should continue for at least the first six months of the child’s life. ‘Breast milk contains antibiotics that help the child fight against the bacterias and viruses and stay healthy,’ says Nirmal Singh 3C.

Ideally, breast milk should be fed to the child till the age of two. The initial years of the Childs life are very crucial for his health and brain development, and breast milk being a rich source of nutrient is of great help in it. In India, the child mortality ratio is very low, the reason being the vulnerability associated with the pre- term babies that are mostly underweight. According to Nirmal Singh 3C, Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths.

In support of the world Breastfeeding Week, Fortis La Femme in collaboration with Breast Milk Foundation launched ‘Amaraa,’ the first Pasteurized human Milk Bank in Delhi/ NCR. The objective of ‘Amaraa’ is to provide all premature and critically-ill babies with human breast milk.
Nirmal Singh 3C says that there are various reasons because of which the mother is not able to breastfeed their child, sometimes due to the insufficient production of milk in the body or due to the crack in the nipples. In such cases, the doctors themselves suggest the mother to formula feed their babies.

A breastfeeding survey was conducted amongst new mothers across the major metro cities of the country to find out the most common issues that they face during the first six months of feeding their child and what are the major reasons that effect their decision for the same.
After the survey in Delhi they have concluded that only 28% initiated breastfeeding habits within the first hour of delivery, where 49% of the mothers fed their babies with colostrum just after the birth and 41% opted for formula feed.

Many women in India still consult their own mothers for advices on breastfeeding and only a small percentage of the pregnant women take advice from the pediatrician. After the survey, we came to know that only 11% of women had consulted about the lactation, says Nirmal Singh 3C. 

He says that it is important to discuss the importance of breastfeeding and to facilitate options for the same even at the public places. So many mothers had to leave their jobs because there was no nursery in their offices.

Nirmal Singh 3C says that we this World breastfeeding week we should pledge to spread awareness about the same and make the women feel comfortable if they have to breastfeed in the public.

  

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