‘BreastFeeding, Key To Sustainable Dev’

Every year, the World
Breastdfeeding Week (WBW) is celebrated between August 1, and August 7, all over the world.  The event is usually promoted and organised by World Alliance for Breast feeding Action (WABA), World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
In the spirit of this celebration, the above bodies carefully select themes that are quite apt in dealing with the need of the season as it relates to breastfeeding.  The 2016 edition of the world breastfeeding week addresses breast feeding as key to sustainable development.
Succinctly put, the breast feeding so trumpeted is simply that devoid of any additional feeding not even water for the first six months of the child on earth and after which a supplemented breast feeding can be given for one or two years.
This is geared towards achieving the goal of elite breast feeding by mothers for the sole reason of getting the incredible health benefits, fulfill the all-vital nutrients and encourage mothers for the healthy growth and development of their young  ones while shielding them from the lethal health problems and diseases including neonatal jaundice, pneumonia, cholera and many more.
Breastfeeding, widely recognized as the optimal way to feed babies, has its positive impact not only on the infant, but also on the mother, the parents and ultimately, the healthcare system.
For the child, apart from the visible health benefits, there is also evidence of small but consistently positive effects of breastfeeding on intellectual development.
Even where there seems to be no substantive evidence to promote breast feeding on the ground that it leads to better psychosocial development, there is ample justification for the value of breast feeding from studies of the nutritional and cognitive advantages associated with breast feeding.