Janet Ogundepo A maternal health advocacy group, Maternal and Child Resource Initiative on Breastfeeding and lactation experts have asserted that mothers with multiple babies could practise exclusively breastfeeding. They explained that mothers with twins could adopt various positions to breastfeed both babies at the same time or alternately. The experts shared this information during a live Instagram session on Monday evening titled “Expert Review on Exclusive Breastfeeding,” held to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week.
They noted that breastfeeding was critical to the growth and development of babies. The World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund recommend that babies initiate breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and be exclusively breastfed within the first six months of life. The WHO states that breastfeeding provides all the energy and nutrients that infants need for the first months of life and is important to ensure optimal growth and development for increased chances of survival.
To create awareness and initiate action on the importance of breastfeeding, World Breastfeeding Week is held annually on August 1-7. According to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, WBW is celebrated in commemoration of the 1990 Innocenti Declaration. The theme for this year is “Closing the Gap: Breastfeeding Support for All.
” In honour of World Breastfeeding Week for this year, the WHO and UNICEF called for an improvement of the global breas.