World Breastfeeding Week

Al-Ameen Humanitarian Support is intensifying its activities and events related to the World Breastfeeding Week, by organizing group and individual awareness sessions in all its active centers and facilities in northern Syria, especially in Al-Bab Health Center in Al-Bab City, where the community health team worked to provide a group awareness session for the reviewing women in the center. The team talked about breastfeeding and that it is the natural way to provide essential and balanced nutrients for the growth of the infant through breast milk. The team recommended the need to start breastfeeding the child during the first hours of his birth; In order to acquire colostrum milk, which is rich in nutrients and antibodies that provide the child with acquired immunity, breastfeeding must be based mainly on the first six months of the child’s life, and supplement it with foods suitable for his age until he reaches two years.
The team talked about the most important benefits of breastfeeding for newborns, which were represented by
provide optimal nutrition; Because breast milk contains everything a child needs during the first six months of his life, as the composition of milk changes according to his changing needs, but the only thing that is lacking in breast milk is vitamin D unless its percentage is very high in the mother’s body, and vitamin D drops are usually recommended. from the age of 2-4 weeks; to make up for that deficiency.
Helping to resist viruses and bacteria; Breast milk contains antibodies.
Reducing the risk of diseases including otitis media, respiratory infections, colds, intestinal infections, sudden infant death syndrome, celiac disease, diabetes and leukemia.
Maintaining a healthy weight and preventing childhood obesity in the later stages of childhood.
Make the baby smarter, this may be due to the physical and visual contact between the mother and her baby.
Having significant positive effects on brain development in the long term.