World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1 to 7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world.
In San Antonio de los Baños, the family doctor's offices, polyclinics, the Iván Portuondo General Teaching Hospital and the Maternity Home, promote educational activities based on the advantages of breastfeeding for both the future mother and the baby, with the proposal for a healthier life, through healthy eating habits and prenatal care.
This year, the World Health Organization (WHO), together with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) undertake beneficial policies for families that encourage breastfeeding and help parents to raise their children establishing links with them in the most important phase: early childhood.
Public Health authorities in Ariguanabo disclose updated information on the advantages of breastfeeding for both the future mother and the baby. Educational work is constant in all family doctor's offices through talks and conversations with pregnant women in the population area, in addition to exchanges between the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the Maternity Home.
Specialists ratify that, during the first six months, breastfeeding protects the child from acute and urinary respiratory infections, otitis media, asthma, diarrhea, allergies, diabetes, lymphoma, reduces the risk of malnutrition, contributes to healthy teeth and prevents mouth deformations