Breast Milk

Breast Milk

This involves:-

a) Optimum Breast-feeding (Lactation Management).
b) Correct Weaning.
c) Feeding during Illness.

LACTATION MANAGEMENT

Part of the Nutrition strategy for children is the promotion of breast-feeding. In Pakistan over 90% of mothers breast-feed their young initially. It is the culturally accepted mode of feeding. But on doing a National newborns only breast-milk. There were certain practices which interfered lacteal feeds (feeds given before putting the baby to mothers breast after birth).