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- Infant and young child feeding - World Health Organization (WHO)
feeding infants in response to their cues The caring practice indicators for feeding infants and young children that are available on the NLiS country profiles include: proportion of children aged 0-23 months who were put to the breast within 1 hour of birth; proportion of infants under 6 months who are exclusively breastfed;
- Feeding an infant or young child - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tips and information If you need help with breastfeeding, ask others for advice, such as asking a trained health worker or other experienced women Feed a baby only with breast milk for the first six months Give the baby no fluids other than breast milk Give small amounts of easy to digest food at 6 months and continue to breastfeed up to 2 years of age or beyond Give a variety of foods that
- Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding whose aim is to improve - through optimal feeding - the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children
- WHO Guideline for complementary feeding of infants and young children 6 . . .
This guideline provides global, normative evidence-based recommendations on complementary feeding of infants and young children 6–23 months of age living in low, middle- and high-income countries It considers the needs of both breastfed and non-breastfed children The guideline supersedes the earlier Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child and Guiding principles
- Breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)
Breastfeeding is the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development Virtually, all mothers can breastfeed, provided they have accurate information and the support of their family, the health care system and society at large Colostrum, the yellowish, sticky breast milk produced at the end of pregnancy, is recommended by WHO as the perfect
- Infant and young child feeding - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child feeding: minimum meal frequency, 6-23 months Child feeding: zero vegetable or fruit consumption, 6-23 months If you have any feedback, you are welcome to write it here If you need to access the old Global Health Observatory data, you can do it here But before you leave, please provide us your feedback about our new data portal
- Complementary feeding - World Health Organization (WHO)
The "Global strategy for infant and young child feeding", also aims to protect, promote and support appropriate infant and young child feeding Appropriate complementary feeding depends on accurate information and skilled support from the family, community and health care system
- Breastfeeding - World Health Organization (WHO)
Breastfeeding for the first six months is crucial WHO recommends that: mothers initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth; infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health, and thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods
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