World Breast-feeding Week, celebrated this week in more than 120 countries, is a great outreach tool for the breast-feeding movement.
The World Alliance of Breast-feeding Action promotes awareness of the benefits of breast-feeding.
The theme of this year's campaign is "Breast-feeding and Family Foods: Loving and Healthy," and its goals are to:
- Emphasize the value of continuing to breast-feed children until they're 2 or older.
- Make known the risks and costs of giving other food and drink to breast-fed babies before 6 months of age. (This goal supports the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which suggests six months of exclusive breast-feeding.)
- Update information about other food and drink needed by older breast-fed babies.
- Share ideas for making complementary feedings easier, healthier and a time for learning and love.
AAP revised its breast-feeding policy in February, noting the considerable advances in the scientific knowledge of the benefits of breast-feeding and the mechanisms underlying these benefits, and in the clinical management of breast-feeding.
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