Friday, 02 August 2019 22:59

Educational Activities Are Carried Out during Breastfeeding Week

Written by Misleydis González Ávila
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With various educational activities on the benefits of breastfeeding, the province celebrates the World Breastfeeding Week, which this time aims to strengthen gender equity through the responsible integration of mothers and fathers to such important process.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- "Let's empower ourselves. Let's make breastfeeding possible!" It is the slogan of the campaign, which calls for innovative and intelligent solutions to prepare men and women as parents in equality, in favor of this way of feeding. The success is greater with the support of the family and society, as it is a team work.

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The actions also seek to promote the initiation within the first hour of life of the baby, accompanied by the father, and promote the work of equitable parental social protection in all its forms (parental, maternity, paternity or family leave).

On these days, the health staff will also talk about the subject in waiting rooms of medical offices; polyclinics, maternal homes and gynecological services, as well as women who donate milk will are recognized.

The strategic alliance workshop with organizations, sectors and civil society will be very helpful to achieve family and social support for breastfeeding. Educational strategies will be extended until 2020 and will include interventions in the community and homes to protect, promote and support the process.

At the same time, they will deploy the campaign named "Father from the beginning", to disseminate the positive aspects of breastfeeding, the update of the initiative "Hospital, the baby and mother´s friend", as well as recertify maternal homes and clinics with this condition.

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