infant feeding and climate change
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Infant Feeding and Climate Change. Prof. Prakash Sundar Shrestha President Nepal Breastfeeding Promotion Forum NEPAL. Status of Infant Feeding Practices < 6 Months Age. Exclusive Breastfeeding-69.6% BF + Plain Water-10.4% BF + Other Milk- 9.4% - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Prof. Prakash Sundar ShresthaPresident
Nepal Breastfeeding Promotion ForumNEPAL
a) Exclusive Breastfeeding -69.6%
b) BF + Plain Water -10.4%
c) BF + Other Milk - 9.4%
d) BF + Complementary Food - 9.5%
e) BF + Non Milk Liquid - 0.4%
f) Not Breastfeeding - 0.7%
NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)
a) Breastfeeding + Complementary food- 70.4%
b) Breastfeeding + Plain Water- 13.0%
c) Exclusive Breastfeeding - 11.5%
d) Breastfeeding + Other Milk- 4.1%
e) Not Breastfeeding - 1.0%
NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)
0 – 1 Month - 5.3%2 – 3 Months - 3.2%4 – 5 Months - 8.7%6 – 8 Months - 5.5%9 – 11 Months - 8.0%12 – 17 Months - 6.6%18 – 23 Months - 5.1%
NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)
NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)
Exact National Data on use of % of commercial
complementary feeding – Not available.
But in personal experience it seems to be on
increasing trends as many women are joining the
job.
8000, 000 babies are born every year. 6% giving
Bottle Feeding means about 48, 000 babies are on
Bottle Feeding.
So Annual GHG Emission will be approximately
22,000 tons carbondioxide equivalent.