Impact of a campaign on better infant feeding practices conducted at Kayamkulam and Sherthala Municipalities

Abstract

A campaign on better infant feeding practices was conducted at Kayamkulam and Sherthala with the main objectives; to encourage the women who are already breast feeding, by imparting scientific information on the practice to discourage artificial feeding;to impart knowledge about the introduction of complementary foods at the correct time even when breast feeding is continued and to train the personnel of the SMTD Project, school teachers etc. so that the trained personnel in turn may continue to disseminate knowledge on better infant feeding practices including breast feeding to others who have not had the benefit of attending such programmes.