UNICEF and the National Orientation Agency promote healthy living among new born babies

     In a bid to promote healthy living among new born babies, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Abia State, have urged Igbo nursing mothers to embrace exclusive breast feeding and adequate diet to ensure the wellbeing of their babies.

    Speaking at workshop organized for nursing mothers and pregnant women at OsisiomaNgwa council headquarters, Osisioma Local Government Area, the state Director of NOA, Dr. NgoziUduma explained that the workshop was designed to create awareness on exclusive breast feeding and adequate nutrition for babies among Ndigbo women and asked nursing mothers to imbibe such practices.

   Earlier, the Coordinator, Baby Friendly Initiative in the state, Chinwe Eke, had described exclusive breast feeding as feeding children with breast milk without any other food from the day of birth till six months and enjoined husbands to support their wives to breast feed their children.

   She further urged nursing mothers not to feed their children with the same food nutrient throughout the day, explaining that only an adequate diet could engender the healthy growth of children.