Breastfeeding
OMO Latch on Life Foundation aims to advocate the significance of breastfeeding through donation, education, and provision of a healthy platform to continually support motherless babies.
The Importance of Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding helps to protect against many common childhood illnesses. Breastmilk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first months of life, and it continues to provide up to half or more of a child’s nutritional needs during the second half of the first year, and up to one-third during the second year of life.
Breastfed children perform better on intelligence tests, are less likely to be overweight or obese and less prone to diabetes later in life. Women who breastfeed also have a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancers.
Inappropriate marketing of manufactured food like baby milk and the formula is beginning to dilute the importance of breastfeeding, especially for parents with little or no access to formal education. This continues to undermine efforts to improve breastfeeding rates and duration worldwide.