World Breastfeeding Week, 2022
1st - 7th August, 2022
Theme: Step up for Breastfeeding – Educate and Support
World breastfeeding week is a global campaign that focuses on strengthening capacity of actors to create awareness on health issues related to breastfeeding. The theme for 2022 highlights the critical role of breastfeeding and emphasizes the role of different actors in strengthening the capacity to protect, promote and support breastfeeding at all levels.
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Support, Protect and Promote breastfeeding to save lives of babies. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breastfeeding provides good nutrition and remains the cornerstone of infant and young child survival, nutrition and development and maternal health. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, followed by continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary foods for up to 2 years and beyond. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Early and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact, rooming-in and kangaroo mother care also significantly improve neonatal survival and reduce morbidity and are recommended by WHO. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
We encourage employers, and labor organisations to support maternity protection and allow mothers to breastfeed their infants during work hours. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
All hospitals should embrace a Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to help new mothers initiate breastfeeding after delivery. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
It can take several attempts before a baby is able to breastfeed successfully. Health workers should give mothers and babies time and space and support them when necessary (WHO). #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
A newborn infant/neonate is a child under 28 days of age - a stage when the child is at highest risk of dying. Early essential newborn care is critical, including early & exclusive breastfeeding, to improve chances of survival and to lay the foundations for a healthy life. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding
Breastmilk is the ideal food for infants. It is safe, clean and contains antibodies which help protect against many common childhood illnesses. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breastmilk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first months of life, and it continues to provide up to half or more of a child’s nutritional needs during the second half of the first year, and up to one third during the second year of life. #WBW2022
WHO recommends that mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be encouraged to initiate or continue to breastfeed. Mothers should be counselled that the benefits of breastfeeding substantially outweigh the potential risks for transmission. #WBW2022
Recommendations on mother-infant contact and breastfeeding must be based on a full consideration of not only of the potential risks of COVID-19 infection of the infant, but also the risks of morbidity and mortality associated with not breastfeeding, the inappropriate use of infant formula milks, as well as the protective effects of skin-to-skin contact (WHO) #WBW2022
Breastfeeding plays an important role in managing the double burden of malnutrition in children. We need to support efforts of maintaining food security and reduce inequalities. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding
We must restore breastfeeding support system and strengthen the capacity of these systems to attain the global nutrition targets 2025. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Safeguarding and promoting breastfeeding helps to address the inequalities that impede sustainable development. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
We must support and restore breastfeeding to pre-COVID19 times and beyond the pandemic to create a warm chain of support at all levels. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breastmilk offers infants with ultimate energy and nutrients in their growth circles. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Do you know, 2 out of 3 infants are not exclusively breastfed for the recommended 6 months, a rate that has not improved in the last 2 decades? #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breastfeeding allow children the best start in life, the milk is magical. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breast milk is the ideal food for infants, it is safe, clean and contains antibodies which help protect the baby against childhood illnesses. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
For optimal breastfeeding practices, mothers require enlightenment and a robust support system. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
We must create structures that address breastfeeding challenges especially for mothers who work in demanding environment. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Mothers who work in demanding environments should be educated on how to they can express breast milk for their babies. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022
Breastfeeding mothers should be educated on the need to maintain personal hygiene to safe guard the health of the child. #WBW2022 #StepUp4Breastfeeding #Amref4BreastFeeding #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2022