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      <h1 id="top">9.3 Young Child Feeding</h1>
      <div><p><span style="font-style: italic;">The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding</span> was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2002. The aim of this strategy is to improve, through optimal feeding, the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the survival of infants and young children. <br /></p><p>"Malnutrition has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for 60% of the 10.9 million deaths, which are often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life.....malnourished children who survive are more frequently sick and suffer the life-long consequences of impaired development."</p><p class="listTitle">The strategy's specific objectives are:</p><ul><li>to raise awareness of the main problems affecting infant and young child feeding, identify approaches to their solution, and provide a framework of essential interventions;</li><li>to increase the commitment of governments, international organisations and other concerned parties for optimal feeding practices for infants and young children;</li><li>to create an environment that will enable mothers, families and other caregivers in all circumstances to make, and implement, informed choices about optimal feeding practices for infants and young children.</li></ul>The document acknowledges these important background principles:<br /><ul><li>Inappropriate feeding practices and their consequences are major obstacles to sustainable socioeconomic development and poverty reduction.</li><li>Mothers and babies form an inseparable biological and social unit; the health and nutrition of one group cannot be divorced from the health and nutrition of the other.</li><li>Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants; infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months to achieve optimal growth, development and health.</li><li>Infants are vulnerable during the transition period when complementary feeding begins. Nutritional status needs to be maintained by complementary foods which are timely, safe, adequate and properly-fed.</li><li>Infants and children are among the most vulnerable victims in natural and human-induced emergencies. Interrupted breastfeeding and inappropriate complementary feeding heighten the risk of malnutrition.</li></ul>Note also that this document also states the hierarchy of feeding options as you have learned in Topic 7.3 and 7.5.<br /><br />Source: <span style="font-style: italic;">Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, WHO 2003</span><br /></div>
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          <li>Exclusive breastfeeding is the cornerstone of the health of infants, young children, children and adults and socioeconomic stability of communities.</li>
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        <li>1.0 <a href="topic_1-0.html">Why Breastfeeding is Important</a><ol><li>1.1 <a href="topic_1-1.html">Biochemistry</a></li><li>1.2 <a href="topic_1-2.html">Immunology</a></li><li>1.3 <a href="topic_1-3.html">Relative risks</a></li></ol></li>
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        <li>3.0 <a href="topic_3-0.html">Pregnancy Care</a><ol><li>3.1 <a href="topic_3-1.html">The feeding decision</a></li><li>3.2 <a href="topic_3-2.html">The barriers</a></li><li>3.3 <a href="topic_3-3.html">Physical preparation</a></li></ol></li>
        <li>4.0 <a href="topic_4-0.html">The Birth Experience</a><ol><li>4.1 <a href="topic_4-1.html">The first hours</a></li><li>4.2 <a href="topic_4-2.html">Labor interventions</a></li><li>4.3 <a href="topic_4-3.html">Postnatal interventions</a></li></ol></li>
        <li>5.0 <a href="topic_5-0.html">Breastfeeding the Baby</a><ol><li>5.1 <a href="topic_5-1.html">Positioning Principles</a></li><li>5.2 <a href="topic_5-2.html">Breastmilk transfer</a></li><li>5.3 <a href="topic_5-3.html">Assessing breastfeeding</a></li></ol></li>
        <li>6.0 <a href="topic_6-0.html">A time to learn</a><ol><li>6.1 <a href="topic_6-1.html">Practical skills</a></li><li>6.2 <a href="topic_6-2.html">Breastfeeding messages</a></li><li>6.3 <a href="topic_6-3.html">Normal growth</a></li><li>6.4 <a href="topic_6-4.html">Sleep</a></li><li>6.5 <a href="topic_6-5.html">Psychological support</a></li><li>6.6 <a href="topic_6-6.html">Discharge planning</a></li></ol></li>
        <li>7.0 <a href="topic_7-0.html">Infant Challenges</a><ol><li>7.1 <a href="topic_7-1.html">Late preterm infant; Non-latching</a></li><li>7.2 <a href="topic_7-2.html">Hypoglycemia; Jaundice</a></li><li>7.3 <a href="topic_7-3.html">Supplementation</a></li><li>7.4 <a href="topic_7-4.html">Crying baby</a></li><li>7.5 <a href="topic_7-5.html">Inadequate weight gain</a><ol><li>7.5.1 <a href="topic_7-5-1.html">Feeding-line device at the breast</a></li><li>7.5.2 <a href="topic_7-5-2.html">Cup feeding</a></li><li>7.5.3 <a href="topic_7-5-3.html">Finger Feeding</a></li><li>7.5.4 <a href="topic_7-5-4.html">Bottle feeding</a></li></ol></li></ol></li>
        <li>8.0 <a href="topic_8-0.html">Maternal Challenges</a><ol><li>8.1 <a href="topic_8-1.html">Engorgement</a></li><li>8.2 <a href="topic_8-2.html">Nipple Pain</a></li><li>8.3 <a href="topic_8-3.html">Breast Problems</a></li><li>8.4 <a href="topic_8-4.html">Insufficient breastmilk</a></li><li>8.5 <a href="topic_8-5.html">Medical, Surgical Issues</a></li></ol></li>
        <li>9.0 <a href="topic_9-0.html">Promotion, Protection and Support</a><ol><li>9.1 <a href="topic_9-1.html">The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes</a></li><li>9.2 <a href="topic_9-2.html">The Baby Friendly Initiative</a></li><li class="current">9.3 <img src="design/bullet_arrow_right.png" alt="*" title="You are here" /><a href="topic_9-3.html">Young Child Feeding</a></li><li>9.4 <a href="topic_9-4.html">Local initiatives</a></li><li>9.5 <a href="topic_9-5.html">Infant feeding in emergencies</a></li></ol></li>
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