Expert guide on the importance of breastfeeding
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According to the Ministry of Health, on average, Curitiba babies are breastfed for about ten months. According to a survey of the organ, the average period of breastfeeding of children curitibanas increased from 221.9 days in 1999 to 300.84 days in 2008.
Even with the increase in the average period of breastfeeding, the result is still below the national average, the period rose from 295.9 to 341.59 days. The information was passed yesterday as part of disclosures relating to World Breastfeeding Week.
According to the study, with 118 thousand children from all the capitals, the Federal District and more than 239 municipalities, the average duration of breast feeding of Curitiba is only higher than that from Recife (293.11), Belo Horizonte (300.68), São Paulo (292.82) and Porto Alegre (299.34).
The study also revealed an increase in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in children younger than four months. In 1999, this rate was 35% to 52% in 2008.
In Curitiba this index rose from 40.5% to 56.6%, exceeding the national numbers. There was also an average increase of one month in duration of EBF in the capitals and the Federal District.
Ten years ago, the duration of EBF was 24 days and in 2008, rose to 54 days. AME refers to food made with only mother's milk. The study also points to an improvement in rates of breast-fed infants in the first hours of life.
Of the children studied, 67.7% had been in that period. In Curitiba, 71.2% of children who participated in the survey were breastfed in the first 60 minutes of life.
In all regions, the likelihood of children being breastfed in the first days of life exceeds 90%, with the steepest decline since the fourth month.
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Since last Saturday, health professionals and teams of nurses from the Hospital de Clinicas (HC) from Curitiba are providing guidance on the importance of breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women in the capital. In Boca Maldita, the Center, was installed a tent for this purpose.
According to the head nurse of the Mothers' Milk Bank, HC, Maria Celestina Grazziotin, the main goal is to encourage mothers who have left the milk route the material to the milk bank at the HC. "The milk may be important for the recovery of premature," he said.
Shares in orientation, organized by the Municipal Health Department and organized by the Breastfeeding Program at City Hall, with the support of the Hospital de Clinicas da UFPR, should last until next Friday. The service in the tabernacle of Boca Maldita is made from 9h to 17h, Monday to Friday.
Source: Paraná Online
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