BREAST FEEDING WEEK CELEBRATION 2023
“Breastfeeding is the process of feeding Human breast milk to a child either directly from the breast or by expressing the milk from the breast and bottle feeding it to the infant. The WHO recommends that begin with in First hours of a babies life and continue as often as much as the baby wants..”
World Breastfeeding Week was held in the first week of August every year, supported by WHO, UNICEF and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners. This year’s theme is to focus on breastfeeding and work, providing a strategic opportunity to advocate for essential maternity rights that support breastfeeding – maternity leave for a minimum of 18 weeks, ideally more than 6 months, and workplace accommodations after this point. These are urgent issues for ensuring women can breastfeed as long as they wish to do so: more than half a billion working women are not given basic maternity provisions; many more find themselves unsupported when they go back to work.
The theme of breast feeding week of 2023 is “ENABLING BREAST FEEDING MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR WORKING PARENTS”. Motherhood is a joyous and fulfilling journey, but it also presents various challenges, particularly in ensuring the well-being of both the baby and the mother.
The breast feeding week celebration started with poster making competition. 6 teams are participated in poster making competition. First prize of the competition goes to Bhavya K, Varsha A, Lakshmi K, Shamej (4th year), second prize goes to Amrutha SR, Nimisha Kuruvila, Renu Ramesh (2nd sem) and third prize goes to Arya MK, Anit Emmanuel, Sreelakshmi PV (4th year).
On the 2nd day we conducted health talk and health exhibition regarding breast feeding at CHC, Shoranur. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Sreeraj, Assiant surgeon.
On the 3rd day we conducted health talk and health exhibition regarding breast feeding at PHC, Vaniyamkulam. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Sreehari, Medical officer.
On the 4th day we conducted a health talk and health exhibition regarding breast feeding at Anganwadi, Panayur. The programme was inaugurated by Mrs. Sudha, Teacher.
On the 5th day we conducted a health talk and health exhibition regarding breast feeding at Anganwadi, Vaniyamkulam. The programme was inaugurated by Mrs. Girija, Teacher.
On the 6th we conducted a health talk and health exhibition regarding breast feeding at PK Das Hospital ( ward 1 , ward 7 and level 5). On the last day of celebration.The programme was organized by Child Health Nursing Dept. Nehru College Of Nursing. The public were benefited by the program.
On 7th August 2023 program was conducted at PKDIMS reception for valedictory function inaugural speech was delivered by DR. RC. Krishnakumar Director and prize distribution given of quiz and poster making winner students, felicitation as done by DR. Jubina Beny. A.T, Professor And Head of Community Medicine, DR. (Lt. Col) H. Valson, Profesor & Department of Obstetrics and gynecology, DR S.N. Deepa Professor and department of pediatrics, Mrs. Aswani. B , Assistant Professor, Nehru College of Nursing. Health talk as given by was Dr. Vidhya sankari, neonatologist, PKDIMS. flash mob, was done by 4th years
All together the program able to provide health education for 250-300 mothers and was finished as very successful one.
