World Breast-feeding Week

Theme:
Protect breastfeeding: A shared responsibility

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1st to 7th August to encourage breast-feeding and improve the health of babies around the world.

Breastmilk is safe, clean and contains antibodies which help protect against many common childhood illnesses.

Breastmilk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first months of life, and it continues to provide up to half or more of a child’s nutritional needs during the second half of the first year, and up to one third during the second year of life.

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