Sentences with phrase «traditional breastfeeding practices»

Strikingly realistic, it captures a moment in time when traditional breastfeeding practices were giving way to the bottle.

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in traditional practices in kenya breastfeeding is seen as one tool in dealing with emotions amongst other tools.

Your body needs much more fluids when breastfeeding or in pregnancy, so fasting just for the sake of traditional cultural practices is getting the balance wrong.

In global terms, breastfeeding is normal, whereas because only 8 % of the world's babies are born in countries where bottle - feeding is the cultural norm [10] some might describe bottle - feeding as a «traditional harmful practice of the minority,» as set out in the Innocenti Declaration [11].

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

I attribute this not only to extended breastfeeding but also to the brain building nutrients supplied by their early first foods as practiced by Traditional Societies.