AS reported in the media, expert physicians at a seminar recently in the city emphasised on motivating mothers through proper communication to only breastfeed babies until six months to reduce malnutrition among them. They also stressed the need for creating awareness to give the babies semi-solid complementary feedings, particularly homemade foods, in addition to continued breastfeeding for at least 24 months. In fact, there is no chance to separately see breastfeeding and complementary feeding as both are related to the infant and child feeding. The physicians underlined the role of mothers for proper growth of their babies. Physicians and health workers can properly motivate those mothers, who say that they had not enough breast milk, to initiate breastfeeding just after birth of the child. If the children found suffering from anaemia they should be given iron rich food. People could be motivated to change their behaviour in family and society, for improving nutritional status of children. It is stressed also that apart from compulsory breastfeeding for six months, mothers should be given right message to select complementary foods available around their homes to give their babies after six months.
Mass awareness should be created throughout the country for in favour of breastfeeding that help grow babies more healthy. Breastfeeding, according to physicians, besides feeding the babies meets all the required contents of food. It is an imperative for a country like ours where there is scarcity of quality baby food as well as lack of affordability by general masses, breastfeeding should continue for babies for as long as possible. In these days of commercial globalisation, many products with attractive and impressive advertisements try to allure mothers to take the baby food formula. But how far they are dependable remains an important question to be answered.
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