Breastfeeding - Programmes - Health Education to Villages

Name: Promotion of Proper Breastfeeding Practices
Status:
Theme: Health Education to Mothers	Region and Country: Maharashtra, India
Partners:	Beneficiaries:
Funding Need:	Budget:
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Programme Activities:
A team of researchers will focus on some key points of investigation about why many (how many?) mothers in the state of Maharashtra are not practicing proper breastfeeding practices:

Intended Results:
Through a multi-tiered investigation of why all mothers are not partaking in proper breastfeeding practices, programmes will be designed to target the causes of the problem. The programmes will be targeted to reach and educate a three-fold audience: mothers, health care providers, and the general public.

Programme Management and Implementation:
Messages will be provided to mothers, health care providers, and the general public through training programmes, TV and radio broadcasts, and instructive pamphlets. The materials designed for and used in the program will be pre-tested to ensure clarity and success on a larger scale.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation:
Initially programme monitoring will ensure that materials are reaching the appropriate audiences, that broadcasts air when scheduled, and other technical issues. Eventually, monitoring will check recall and the understanding of the targeted audiences. Statistics on mothers providing colostrum to their baby within the first half hour of birth and practicing exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months with complementary feeding for up to two years will be evaluated and compared to statistics before programme implementation. The programme will be revised and adapted as necessary.

Learning and Dissemination:

Related Resources:

Notes from the Field: Communication for Child Survival. Breastfeeding Practices in Jordan: Designing Effective Messages by Anne H. Roberts and Renata Seidel (51-68)

Breastfeeding - the first 6 months of life

Increasing optimal breastfeeding practices could save an estimated 1.5 million infant lives annually. Up to 55 percent of infant deaths from diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections may result from inappropriate feeding practices. Optimal feeding for sustained child health and growth includes initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of life, exclusive breastfeeding for six months, timely complementary feeding with appropriate foods, and continued breastfeeding for two years and beyond.

During the first 6 months of life, infants should be exclusively breastfed. This means that the healthy baby should receive breastmilk and no other fluids, such as water, teas, juice, cereal drinks, animal milk or formula. Exclusively breastfed babies are much less likely to get diarrhoea or to die from it than are babies who are not breastfed or are partially breastfed. Breastfeeding also protects against the risk of allergy early in life, aids in child spacing and provides protection against infections other than diarrhoea (e.g. pneumonia). Breastfeeding should be continued until at least 2 years of age. The best way to establish the practice is to put the baby to the breast immediately after birth and not to give any other fluids.

Advantages and Benefits of breastfeeding are listed below. Some or all of them may be explained to mothers using simple language.

If breastfeeding is not possible, cow's milk or milk formula should be given from a cup. This is possible even with very young infants. Feeding bottles and teats should never be used because they are very difficult to clean and easily carry the organisms that cause diarrhoea. Careful instructions should be given on the correct preparation of milk formula using water that has been boiled briefly before use.

Advantages and Benefits of Breastfeeding

Saves Lives. Currently there are 9 million infant deaths a year. Breastfeeding saves an estimated 6 million additional deaths from infectious disease alone.
Provides Initial Immunization. Breastmilk, especially the first milk (colostrum), contains anti-bacterial and anti-viral agents that protect the infant against disease, especially diarrhoea. These are not present in animal milk or formula. Breastmilk also aids the development of the infant's own immune system.
Prevents Diarrhoea / Diarrhea. Diarrhoea is the leading cause of death among infants in developing countries. Infants under two months of age who are not breastfed are 25 times as likely to die of diarrhea than infants exclusively breastfed. Continued breastfeeding during diarrhea reduces dehydration, severity, duration, and negative nutritional consequences of diarrhea.
Provides Complete and Perfect Nutrition. Breastmilk is a perfect food that cannot be duplicated. It is more easily digested than any substitute, and it actually alters in composition to meet the changing nutritional needs of the growing infant. It provides all the nutrients and water needed by a healthy infant during the first 6 months of life. Formula or cow's milk may be too dilute (which reduces its nutritional value) or too concentrated (so that it does not provide enough water), and the proportions of different nutrients are not ideal.
Maximizes a Child's Physical and Intellectual Potential. Malnutrition among infants up to six months of age can be virtually eradicated by the practice of exclusive breastfeeding. For young children beyond six months, breastmilk serves as the nutritional foundation to promote continued healthful growth. Premature infants fed breastmilk show higher developmental scores as toddlers and higher IQs as children than those not fed breastmilk.
Promotes the Recovery of the Sick Child. Breastfeeding provides a nutritious, easily digestible food when a sick child loses appetite for other foods. When a child is ill or has diarrhea, breastfeeding helps prevent dehydration. Frequent breastfeeding also diminishes the risk of malnutrition and fosters catch-up growth following illness.
Supports Food Security. Breastmilk provides total food security for an infant's first six months. It maximizes food resources, both because it is naturally renewing, and because food that would otherwise be fed to an infant can be given to others. A mother's milk supply adjusts to demand; only extremely malnourished mothers have a reduced capacity to breastfeed.
Bonds Mother and Child. Breastfeeding immediately after delivery encourages the "bonding" of the mother to her infant, which has important emotional benefits for both and helps to secure the child's place within the family. Breastfeeding provides physiological and psychological benefits for both mother and child. It creates emotional bonds, and has been known to reduce rates of infant abandonment.
Helps Birth Spacing. In developing countries, exclusive breastfeeding reduces total potential fertility as much as all other modern contraceptive methods combined. Mothers who breastfeed usually have a longer period of infertility after giving birth than do mothers who do not breastfeed.
Benefits Maternal Health. Breastfeeding reduces the mother's risk of fatal postpartum hemorrhage, the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and of anemia. By spacing births, breastfeeding allows the mother to recuperate before she conceives again.
Saves Money. Breastfeeding is among the most cost-effective of child survival interventions. Households save money; and institutions economize by reducing the need for bottles and formulas. By shortening mothers' hospital stay, nations save foreign exchange. There are none of the expenses associated with feeding breastmilk substitutes (e.g. the costs of fuel, utensils, and special formulas, and of the mother's time in formula preparation).
Is Environment-friendly. Breastfeeding does not waste scarce resources or create pollution. Breastmilk is a naturally-renewable resource that requires no packaging, shipping, or disposal.
Breastfeeding is Clean. It does not require the use of bottles, nipples, water and formula which are easily contaminated with bacteria that can cause diarrhoea.
Milk intolerance is very rare in infants who take only breastmilk.

Weaning a critical time for diarrhoea transmission

Infants are at greatest risk of diarrhoea when foods other than breastmilk are first given. This is because during weaning infants are being exposed to food-borne germs for the first time and they are losing the protection of breastmilk which has anti-infective properties.

High levels of contamination are often found in animal milks and traditional weaning foods, especially cereal gruels. Escherichia coli, which causes at least 25 per cent of all diarrhoea in developing countries, is commonly found in weaning food.

Feeding bottles and rubber teats, which are particularly difficult to clean, are often breeding grounds for germs.

The need for infants older than 6 months to receive more than just breastmilk in order to grow well, balanced against the risk that this will result in diarrhoea, has been called 'the weaning dilemma'.

It is important for health workers to work with local communities to identify and encourage safe weaning practices and to improve infants' nutrition to increase their resistance to infections such as diarrhoea.

Improved weaning practices

Complementary foods should normally be started when a child is 6 months old. These may be started any time after 6 months of age, however, if the child is not growing satisfactorily. Good weaning practices involve selecting nutritious foods and using hygienic practices when preparing them.

The choice of complementary foods will depend on local patterns of diet and agriculture, as well as on existing beliefs and practices. In addition to breastmilk (or animal milk), soft mashed foods (e.g. cereals) should be given, to which some vegetable oil (510 ml/serving) has been added.

Other foods, such as well cooked pulses and vegetables, should be given as the diet is expanded. When possible, eggs, meat, fish and fruit should be also given.

Off-page link

The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes:
Frequently Asked Questions [Leaflet/Booklet]

World Health Organization (WHO), 2006

Better breastfeeding, healthier lives [whole issue]

March 2006

Weaning a Rural Child
Dr. Anil Mokashi MD., DCH, FIAP, PhD.

Breastfeeding Resources

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	A Policy Analysis Tool for Calculating the Health, Child Spacing, and Economic Benefits of Breastfeeding (BOB) This spreadsheet tool consists of seven worksheets: 1) introduction, 2) assumptions, 3) breastmilk production, 4) health, 5) survival, 6) fertility, and 7) summary. The spreadsheets estimate the effects of breastfeeding on a variety of functional outcomes with public policy significance. Author(s): J. Ross, V. Aguayo, H. Stiefel Downloads Available: English (110.5 KB)

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15 Pages	Bolivia - Breastfeeding, Complementary Feeding, Maternal Nutrition and LAM Counseling Cards These counseling cards were developed in collaboration with many partners for the Altiplanto region of Bolivia. Contributing Partner(s): Caritas Colivaiana, Plan International Bolivia, USAID, Procosi, Servir, Project Concern, Desarolla Juvenil Comunitario, Freedom from Hunger, Aprosar, Ministerio de Salud y Prevension Social Downloads Available: Spanish (3.92 MB)

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	Breastfeeding Questions Answered: A Guide for Providers This publication produced by the INFO Project provides answers to questions frequently asked about breastfeeding. Downloads Available: English (314.66 KB)

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30 Pages	Community-Based Strategies for Breastfeeding Promotion and Support in Developing Countries WHO and LINKAGES examine the role of communities and community-based resource persons in providing support to mothers who breastfeed. This report is based on a review of the literature and an analysis of three projects; it assesses the impact of interventions, the mechanisms through which behaviors can be changed, and the factors that are necessary to maximize and sustain the benefits of interventions. (Hard copies of this publication can be obtained by e-mailing WHO at cah@who.int) Author(s): A. Morrow, WHO Contributing Partner(s): LINKAGES Downloads Available: English (455.36 KB)

40 Pages	Developmental Readiness of Normal Full Term Infants to Progress from Exclusive Breastfeeding to the Introduction of Complementary Foods: Reviews of the Relevant Literature Summarizes evidence-based literature regarding the best age to introduce complementary (semi-solid and solid) foods into the diet of the breastfed infant. Author(s): A. Naylor, ed. and A. Morrow, co-ed. Contributing Partner(s): Wellstart International and the LINKAGES Project Downloads Available: English (1.91 MB)

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70 Pages	Essential Health Sector Actions to Improve Maternal Nutrition in Africa Identifies essential nutrition and health actions for pregnant and lactating women that contribute to the achievement of five nutrition-related outcomes. Contributing Partner(s): The Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care at Makerere University in Uganda, MOST Project, SARA Project, SANA Project Downloads Available: English (505.58 KB)

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57 Pages	Essential Nutrition Actions - A Four Day Training Course for Planners & Managers of Health & Nutrition Programs in Indonesia: Training Guide The purpose of this training is to prepare program managers and pre-service instructors to train service providers in an action-oriented approach to improve the nutrition of infants, young children and women. (THE TRAINING MODULE DOES NOT INCLUDE: Handouts, PowerPoints or Electronic References. To view the training module, click on the link, "English" below; to view the Handouts for this training, click here; to view the PowerPoints, click here; to view the Electronic References, click here) Downloads Available: English (1.81 MB)

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18 Pages	Ethiopia - Counseling Tool on Infant Feeding Options for PMTCT Sites This counseling tool is to be used by health professionals working in PMTCT sites for the purpose of counseling and demonstrating recommended infant feeding options. Contributing Partner(s): Ethiopian Ministry of Health Downloads Available: English (11.24 MB) Amharic (1.5 MB)

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35 Pages	India - CRS Counseling Cards This set of 15 13x10" counseling cards was used during community breastfeeding promotion activities in India by CRS. Contributing Partner(s): CRS Downloads Available: English (1.48 MB)

25 Pages	India - CRS Counseling Cards This set of 11 counseling cards in Hindi was used by CRS during community breastfeeding promotion activities. No English translation is available. Contributing Partner(s): CRS Downloads Available: English (2.12 MB)

38 Pages	India - CRS Flashcards on Breastfeeding and Maternal Nutrition (Hindi) These 20 flashcards were used to encourage maternal nutrition in the Lucknow Zone, in India. No translation of the Hindi scripts is available. Contributing Partner(s): CRS Downloads Available: English (2.16 MB)

59 Pages	India - CRS Flashcards on Breastfeeding and Maternal Nutrition (Telugu) These 30 flashcards were used to encourage maternal nutrition in the Hyderabad zone, in India. No English translation of the Telugu is available at this time. Contributing Partner(s): CRS Downloads Available: English (6.87 MB)

38 Pages	India - World Vision Breastfeeding Counseling Cards These counseling cards were developed in collaboration with World Vision to provide age-specific messages on infant feeding. No English translation is available. Contributing Partner(s): World Vision Downloads Available: English (2.39 MB)

156 Pages	Infant and Young Child Feeding: A Tool for Assessing National Practices, Policies and Programmes This three-part tool is designed to help users assess the strengths and weaknesses of policies and programs for protecting, promoting and supporting optimal feeding practices, and determine where improvements may be needed to meet the aim and objectives of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate the tool should be addressed to WHO Publications, email: permission@who.int (See our other program tools) Downloads Available: English (1.46 MB)

56 Pages	Infant Feeding in Emergencies, Module 1: for emergency relief staff This infant feeding in emergencies module prepares all emergency relief staff, both international and locally recruited, to safeguard maternal and child health in emergencies by ensuring appropriate infant feeding. It is appropriate for decision-makers, regional managers, logistics officers, camp administrators, and all whose work involves care for mothers and children. LINKAGES contributed to the interagency working group on Infant Feeding in Emergencies and the UN Sub Committee on Nutrition Working Group on Emergencies to prepare this module which can be obtained by visiting the Emergency Nutrition Network website, http://www.ennonline.net/ife/index.html. Contributing Partner(s): UN Sub Committee on Nutrition Working Group on Emergencies Downloads Available: No downloads available

59 Pages	Infant Feeding in Emergencies, Module 2 version 1.0 This module aims to provide health and nutrition workers with the basic knowledge and skills to help both breastfeeding and artificially feeding women. The intended audience is health and nutrition workers who are directly concerned with the care of mothers/caregivers and infants. The module can be obtained by visiting the Emergency Nutrition Network website, http://www.ennonline.net/ife/module2/index.html. Contributing Partner(s): ENN, IBFAN, Terre des hommes, UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO, WFP Downloads Available: No downloads available

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