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This week is World Breastfeeding Week 2024. The Embassy supports Alive & Thrive to promote breastfeeding and establish facilities at hospitals in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Read about how 🇮🇪 support helps mothers and babies in 🇰🇭 below fhi360.org/articles/a-mid…

#Breastfeeding doesn’t just happen. Those who choose to breastfeed must have considerable support. Here, 1,000 Days' Solianna Meaza explores how to put the nourishing foundation of breastfeeding within reach for all: bit.ly/3AhvAnA #WBW2024 #BreastfeedingSupportForAll

To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week 2024, the Editor-in-Chief of International Breastfeeding Journal Lisa Amir discusses recent articles in the journal and how we can close the gap and provide breastfeeding support for all. #WBW2024 #IntBreastfeedJ communities.springernature.com/posts/world-br…

#Breastfeeding may seem like a mom’s job, but it does require family and community support. While only moms can breastfeed, dads can help by sharing household chores and caring for the baby, thus enabling the baby to receive life-saving resources from breastmilk. #WBW2024 @FHI360

Women have to make an unfair choice between earning from work or #breastfeeding and childcare. Breastfeeding's importance to the economy is often underrecognized in metrics like GDP. The #MothersMilkTool helps govs quantify this crucial contribution! bit.ly/3WyIgOw

#Breastfeeding is not just about health & nutrition—it contributes significantly to the global economy. The new #MothersMilkTool offers a simple way to value mothers' contribution to healthy & sustainable economies. Learn more: bit.ly/3SyK1u6 #WBW2024 Alive & Thrive

One kg of commercial milk formula generates around 11–14 kg of greenhouse gas during the product life cycle. #Breastfeeding is essential for babies, reduces carbon emissions, and positively impacts the environment. Use the #GreenFeedingTool to measure it! greenfeedingtool.org

#DYK Each dollar invested in breastfeeding yields $35 of returns in economic benefits. By safeguarding this natural process, we safeguard health, prosperity and future development for everyone, everywhere. Let's invest in life, let's invest in #breastfeeding! #WBW2024 #NBM24

Supporting #breastfeeding narrows the #gendernutritiongap! Nutritional inequality puts non-breastfed babies at risk of malnutrition and severe complications. When pregnant women and nursing moms lack access to proper nutrition and healthcare the impact spans generations. #WBW2024

In the latest issue of Emergency Nutrition Network's #FieldExchange, @FHI360 experts share findings & recommendations from a new assessment they conducted in #Yemen about how mother-to-mother support groups can improve infant, young child feeding practices in emergencies. bit.ly/3y53nQc

NEW PUBLICATION: Views on wet nursing and expressing breastmilk for sharing and human milk bank donation among mothers in two parenting social media communities in Vietnam. Victoria Hall Moran FHI 360 Research Alive & Thrive onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…

Thlang Sotheavy is no stranger to helping women who give birth at sea. She's done it twice. Sotheavy — who trained with @FHI360’s Alive & Thrive — supported #MomandBaby, including helping them practice skin-to-skin contact & early #breastfeeding. bit.ly/4c8VVS0

NEW PUBLICATION: Violations of Vietnamese laws related to the online marketing of breastmilk substitutes: Detections using a virtual violations detector. Victoria Hall Moran FHI 360 Research Alive & Thrive Deakin IPAN Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…

Could we achieve future success & save $1.5 billion daily by investing in #breastfeeding? Check out the data with Alive & Thrive's Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool to see how investing in breastfeeding leads to success: aliveandthrive.org/en/the-new-cos… #NBM2024

During emergencies, #breastfeeding proves to be a life-saving source of nourishment for infants. Despite the floods, Nông Thùy Trang (pictured) managed to continue breastfeeding her 9-month-old daughter, Thùy Chi, along with complementary feeding. Ireland in Vietnam 🇮🇪 UNICEF

NEW PUBLICATION: Strengthening nutrition policy and service delivery: Lessons learned from a six‐country assessment of Alive & Thrive's technical assistance. Victoria Hall Moran FHI 360 Research Alive & Thrive onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…