Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding saves more lives»

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Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

«With so much at stake, we need to do more to reach women with a simple, powerful message: Breastfeeding can save your baby's life,» said Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director.

Improved breastfeeding rates could save more under - 5 lives than universal provision of safe water, sanitation and vaccination, according to the Lancet Child Survival Series.

More lives of Filipino children could be saved by raising breastfeeding rates than by any other single intervention.

KMC makes mother more central to the team which is good and promotes breastfeeding which can of itself be life - saving for prems» Nils Bergham

New analyses have revealed that increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels could save the lives of more than 820 000 children aged under 5 years and 20 000 women each year.

Reaching the global nutrition target to increase breastfeeding rates would mean that 105 million more children are exclusively breastfed, saving 520,000 children's lives.

«IBFAN hopes that the report will lead more countries to improve and enforce existing legislation so that breastfeeding will have a better chance and save more lives,» says Annelies Allain, Director of IBFAN's ICDC.

And immediate breastfeeding more often leads to exclusive breastfeeding for six months, which can save even more lives.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

Given that the mortality rate for black infants is more than twice that of white infants, more needs to be done to ensure that all women can give their babies the powerful life - saving, brain - boosting and health - giving benefits of breastfeeding.