World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1 to 7 at Sai Siva Children’s Hospital to promote breastfeeding and improve the health of infants throughout the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by the government, WHO, UNICEF, and other organizations for breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support.
Breastfeeding improves mother and child health. If breastfeeding increased to an almost universal level, more than 800,000 people could be saved every year, with the majority being children under six months. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of the mother getting breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Estimated that breastfeeding can prevent breast cancer from 20,000 maternal deaths each year. Some of the importance of breastfeeding for infants are so it is good to provide breast milk rather than bottle milk: