Mexico hosts breastfeeding festival to tackle social stigma

Record ID: 905349

  • Title: Mexico hosts breastfeeding festival to tackle social stigma
  • Date: 5th August 2017
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND (UNICEF) REPRESENTATIVE FOR MEXICO, PRESSIA ARIFIN, SAYING: "It is important that these children receive breast milk from their mothers. It is not just a question of health because breast milk contains ingredients that protects children against illnesses as also importantly to secure good health for the child, including in the prevention of obesity." MORE OF WOMEN BREASTFEEDING AT FESTIVAL BABY BEING BREASTFED (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MOTHER, CARMEN PINA, SAYING: "I know many mothers who say that formula milk is easier and fills up the baby. That is not true, we are mammals and part of our instinct is to feed our babies." MORE OF MOTHER OF MOTHERS BREASTFEEDING HER CHILD MOTHER LOOKING AT HER CHILD AS SHE BREASTFEEDS MORE OF BABY BEING BREASTFED MAN AND WOMAN TALKING AS CHILD IS BEING BREASTFED WOMEN AT STALLS AT BREASTFEEDING FESTIVAL BANNER THAT READS "I AM GIVEN BREAST MILK. YES TO BREASTFEEDING" MOTHER AND CHILD BEING PHOTOGRAPHED
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2017 21:49
  • Keywords: breastfeeding festival Mexico City Mexico social stigma mothers feeding babies
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Living / Lifestyle,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA0046SVQ0JN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS NUDITY
    Mothers in Mexico celebrated the UN's World Breastfeeding Week on Saturday (August 05) by attending a festival to promote maternal milk amidst a social stigma that has seen mum's turn increasingly to formula.
    According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), some 7 million children under the age of five die from preventable causes. But such mortality rates could be halved with early breastfeeding.
    But social stigma of public breastfeeding and the busy lifestyles of working mothers have seen many families turn to formula milk. These Mexican mums want to make a statement that breast milk is best.
    According to the United Nations, breastfed children have at least six times greater chance of survival in the early months than a non-breastfed child.
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