Breastfeeding
is nature's health plan
In a world filled with processed foods and progressing technologies, it is often easy to forget the natural bonds that bind one human being to another. The most important amongst them is the bond between a mother and her child.
This bond begins from the moment a person is born and continues lifelong. A major aspect of the relationship between a mother and son is the power of breastfeeding. This sacred act of nourishment holds immense benefits for both the mother and the child. These are benefits that formula based milk cannot even come close to emulating.
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Promoting early and exclusive breastfeeding through the counseling, training, and treating of mothers. Ensuring every infant gets access to mother's milk naturally, and promoting human milk banking.
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To ensure that no infant is deprived of Mother’s Milk, god’s greatest gift, during the early stages of life.
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Why is breastfeeding important?
Apart from fostering a close and healthy bond between the mother and the child, breastfeeding holds multiple other benefits too. It helps improve a child’s immunity greatly, especially in the early years.
It also helps a child’s growth and strength during the early stages of development. Further, it has significant benefits for the mother as well. It helps lower cancer risk for mothers while also improving overall health.
What is human milkbanking?
Human milk banking is the process through which breast milk produced by mothers is stored under hygienic conditions so that it maybe of use later for their child or other needy children.
Human milk banking helps both mothers who are expressing excess milk and mothers who are unable to produce milk. The eventual beneficiaries are the children who need this nourishment for optimal development
Why Human Milk Banking?
- Evidence from the world over shows that breastfeeding is the single most important intervention to ensure child survival.
- The Government of Bharat recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of the newborn’s life.
- The baby is fed only breast milk, and that no other food/fluids including water are given during the first six months of life.
- Helps in administrative supervision by medical staff.
- Presence of human milk banks in the neonatal units is associated with elevated rates of exclusive breastfeeding rates in very low birth weight (VLBW) babies.
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Donor Mother
Sudeshna
- Determined to put her milk to use for saving preterm babies.
- Purchased an extra fridge and started diligently collecting and stored about 12 liters of her breast milk.
- She researched on Milk Banks and sent 90 packets of Mothers Milk from Andhra (because there were no milk banks in Andhra) to Telangana through cold chain process.
