Common Faulty Feeding Practices Leading to Malnutrition
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Common Faulty Feeding Practices Leading to Malnutrition
Malnutrition in children in a major concern, 47% children under 3 years are under weight, 33% of all babies
born are low birth weight. Exclusive breastfeeding rates is only 19.4% at 6 months and 54.2% at 3 months
only and 33% children are being providing timely complementary feeding. Following faulty feeding practices
contribute to malnutrition.
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Late initiation of breastfeeding.
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Giving babies other fluid and milks before breastfeeding is initiated.
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Starting artificial feeding before six months.
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Early start of complementary feeding before six months
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Late introducing of complementary foods.
Your work to improve feeding practices will help
reduce malnutrition in the country.
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To, National Coordinator
Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI)
BP-33,
Pitampura,
Delhi 110 088
Infant and Young Child Feeding Update IV - Feedback form
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your continuous feed back which has being guiding us on the usefulness of the reading
material in your education, training & clinical activities. We are also encouraged by your responses about
usefulness of material, for your advocacy, policy & community outreach activities. We will request you to
kindly continue sending us your suggestions for improvement.
Our next issues will be focusing on:
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Problems - Breast Conditions
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Feeding During Illness
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Nutrition of the young child & growth monitoring during the first two years
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Nutrition and care during pregnancy, adolescence and lactation
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Commercial versus homemade infant foods
Please fill free to advice send us your suggestions on the TOPICS of your interest in our next issues.
FEEDBACK FORM
Do we have the correct information for you? A large number of undelivered copies of the update come back to us. We
want to have a correct list please send.
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What solutions you suggest for ‘Not Enough Milk’ problem to your patients?
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BPNI is planning to start a BPNI Certified Lactation Consultant (BCLC) programme through a distant learning
(theory) and 5 days practical training course. Would you like to subscribe this course? [—|Yes
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