Nona D.

Andaya-Castillo, IBCLC

International Board Certified

Lactation Consultant
Director, Nurturers
of the Earth
Nurturers of the Earth

A movement that promotes

an earth-friendly lifestyle…
Children
for
Breastfeeding
World Breastfeeding Week
August 1-7
First Breastfeeding-friendly Mall
 World Health
Organization’s
Recommendations
Recognizing that infant and young child
mortality can be reduced through
improved nutritional status of women of
reproductive age, especially during
pregnancy, and by exclusive breastfeeding
for the first six months of life, and with
nutritionally adequate and safe
complementary feeding through the
introduction of safe and adequate
amounts of indigenous foodstuffs and
local foods while breastfeeding continues
up to two years and beyond.
World Health Assembly (WHA)
16 April 2002
 Exclusive
1.

breastfeeding
2.for 6 months
 Exclusive breastfeeding means

There isWater/Glucose
Formula

NO Water
Pacifiers
need Teas/Juices
for Vitamins
For six months
Recognizing that infant and young child
mortality can be reduced through
improved nutritional status of women of
reproductive age, especially during
pregnancy, and by exclusive breastfeeding
for the first six months of life, and with
nutritionally adequate and safe
complementary feeding through the
introduction of safe and adequate
amounts of indigenous foodstuffs and
local foods while breastfeeding continues
up to two years and beyond.
World Health Assembly (WHA)
16 April 2002
Look at What You are Missing!
Unpolished and White Rice

100 grams White Rice Unpolished

Rice
Protein (g) 6.3 8.1
Calcium (mg) 30 50
Iron (mg) 2.8 5.2
Calcium Content of Indigenous Foods
Food (100 grams) Calcium (mg)
Kulitis 314
Kamote, ugat, puti 152
Kasubha 619
Himbabao 362
Sesame Seeds 1,160
Saging, bulaklak 288
Saluyot 194
Singkamas 14
Okra 79
Talong 30
Northern Philippines:
Pinakbet and Dinengdeng
Tagalog Region:
Bulanglang and
Sinigang
Southern Philippines:
Laswa, Law-uy and
 1. Indigenous foods to
complement breastfeeding
Recognizing that infant and young child
mortality can be reduced through
improved nutritional status of women of
reproductive age, especially during
pregnancy, and by exclusive breastfeeding
for the first six months of life, and with
nutritionally adequate and safe
complementary feeding through the
introduction of safe and adequate
amounts of indigenous foodstuffs and
local foods while breastfeeding continues
up to two years and beyond.
World Health Assembly (WHA)
16 April 2002
 Breastfeeding children
up to 2 years and beyond
In the second year (12-23 months),
448 mL of breastmilk provides:
29% of energy requirements
43% of protein requirements
36% of calcium requirements
75% of vitamin A requirements
76% of folate requirements
94% of vitamin B12 requirements
60% of vitamin C requirements
-- Dewey 2001
One teaspoon
of breastmilk contains 3,000,000
germ killing cells!

Even one teaspoon a day is very

valuable for the baby !
Iowa Extension Service
The practice being introduced
in some countries of providing
infants with specifically
formulated milks (so-called
“follow-up milks”)
is not necessary.
 
World Health Assembly (WHA)
39th Assembly, 16 May 1986
 In the Philippines
at least
16,000 children
die annually
because they were
not breastfed.
WHO, Philippines
Infant Deaths:
• 10.9 million
every year

• 60% due to
malnutrition
brought by
inappropriate
feeding
practices
Infant Deaths:
• Two-thirds
of these
deaths
occur during
the first year
of life
 1.5 Million
babies
worldwide
die annually
because
they were
not
breastfed.
James Grant, UNICEF
 1981
The International Code
on the Marketing
of Breastmilk Substitutes
and other Related
Products
 Milk for:
•Pregnant Women
•Breastfeeding Mothers
•Toddlers
•Elderly
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