A Nutrition Officer of the Effia Kwesimintsim Health Directorate, Madam Veronica Ensor, has admonished nursing mothers to see breastfeeding as an integral part of the growth of their newborns.
This year’s campaign focuses on promoting practices that can help support workplace-related breastfeeding.
In an interview with Kwame Offie on Spice 91.9 FM, Madam Ensor asserted that breast milk contains protective agents which protect the baby from infections.
She encouraged mothers to adhere to the WHO recommendations for 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding.
This call comes on the back of marking World Breastfeeding Week from Tuesday, August 1 – Monday, August 7, 2023, on the local theme” Enabling Breastfeeding Making a Difference for a working parent”.
To ensure nursing mothers and their babies go through proper breastfeeding, managers of firms, Madam Ensor said must provide working breastfeeding mothers with the requisite support they need such as setting up a breastfeeding corner for nursing mothers.
“Practising exclusive breastfeeding, you need to breastfeed on demand. Assuming having an 8 – 5 job, how do you breastfeed successfully?
We are engaging stakeholders, organisations and everybody to support every mother. Managers should try and create breastfeeding corners where mothers can attend to their babies,” She said.
World Breastfeeding Week is a week-long event observed during the first week of August, every year. plays a crucial role in ensuring the proper growth and development of a child. It contains antibodies that help protect infants from infections and illnesses, creating a strong immune system from an early age.
