The ‘World Breastfeeding Week’ awareness seminar was held here on Monday.
Inaugurating the seminar, Minister for Social Welfare P. Geetha Jeevan said breastfeeding would effectively protect the babies from a range of issues like stunted growth, underweight etc. and hence the mothers should feed the babies with mothers’ milk up to first six months and then continue breastfeeding along with other nutritious food prescribed by the paediatricians.
“As prescribed by the World Health Organisation, the mothers should start breastfeeding from the first one hour of birth and the babies should be given mothers’ milk alone for the first six months. Besides feeding the babies with mothers’ milk up to 2 years, they should also be given other nutritious food prescribed by the doctors from the sixth month onwards to make sure the babies are healthy,” Ms. Geetha said.
The Minister also inaugurated the ‘World Breastfeeding Week’ rangoli competition in the presence of District Collector K. Senthil Raj and Dean (In-Charge) of Thoothukudi Government Medical College Hospital Rajendran.
