In a bid to promote healthy living among new born babies, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Abia State, have urged Igbo nursing mothers to embrace exclusive breast feeding and adequate diet to ensure the wellbeing of their babies.
Speaking at workshop organized for nursing mothers and pregnant women at Osisioma Ngwa council headquarters, Osisioma Local Government Area, the state Director of NOA, Dr. Ngozi Uduma explained that the workshop was designed to create awareness on exclusive breast feeding and adequate nutrition for babies among Ndigbo women and asked nursing mothers to imbibe such practices.
According to Uduma, “This workshop is designed to sensitize nursing mothers and pregnant women on breast feeding and adequate nutrition. The process of feeding a child begins from the womb, but it appears mothers are not aware of this. The best food for the baby is breast milk. It helps the baby in a lot of ways; growth, intelligence and immunity against attack, among others.
“For pregnant women, it is important that they feed well with adequate nutrition. If a pregnant woman doesn’t feed well, it affects the baby. They should always visit health centres for ante natal care.” Earlier, the Coordinator, Baby Friendly Initiative in the state, Mrs Chinwe Eke, had described exclusive breast feeding as feeding children with breast milk without any other food from the day of birth till six months and enjoined husbands to support their wives to breast feed their children.
She further urged nursing mothers not to feed their children with the same food nutrient throughout the day, explaining that only an adequate diet could engender the healthy growth of children. “For any child to grow, you need all the necessary nutrients.
It is important that the child takes complete nutrients. People may not have money to buy all the needed foods, but God has endowed us with natural foods for our children. Breast milk is the best food for the baby,”she stressed.
By: Ugochukwu Alaribe
Vanguard News
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