As the world marks this year’s World Breastfeeding Week between August 1 and August 7, Nigeria also joined the rest of the world to commemorate the 2023 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), a global campaign which focuses on raising awareness about breastfeeding and its advantages. This year’s theme is ‘enabling breastfeeding – making a difference for working parents’ and during the week, organisations and advocates showcased the impact of paid leave, workplace support and emerging parenting norms on breastfeeding. In Nigeria, the health impact of stopping breastfeeding early was the attention and many advocates sensitized women on the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and their babies. Every year, WBD is celebrated in the first week of August and observed globally to raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding and its benefits. In line with the theme of this year’s WBD, emphasis was put on the need for greater breastfeeding support across all workplaces to sustain and improve progress on breastfeeding rates globally.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 09, 2023 06:43 UTC