EXETER - What better place for the WIC program to promote the benefits of breast-feeding and wholesome baby foods than the farmers market at Swasey Parkway, where area residents who value freshly harvested and often organic local produce go each week to shop?
August -7 was World Breast Feeding Week, a World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) initiative.
This year’s theme - Breast-feeding and Family Foods: Loving and Healthy - promotes exclusive breast-feeding for six months after birth, the benefits of continuing to breast feed to age 2, and also informs parents about appropriate complementary foods and drinks when adding solids after babies reach 6 months of age.
Staff from the Exeter WIC program were on hand at the farmers market last Thursday to demonstrate simple home baby-food preparation techniques, and to discuss the benefits of breast-feeding.
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