Malnutrition stalks India's Children

http://tinyurl.com/2e2coc 

Some snips of the story:

"On the other side of the room, seven-month-old Niketa, being fed formula milk with a spoon by her grandmother, waves a stick-like arm. Her mother died two days after she was born following a difficult delivery."

and

Nearly a third of children are born underweight which means their mothers are underweight and undernourished. "Some mothers just don't produce enough breast milk," he says. 

Also, as pediatrician Prasad notes, many mothers do not have time to regularly breastfeed as they must work as farm or manual labourers, domestic servants or in factories. 

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Mirine R. Dye, B.S., CCE, CLE
Serving the Florida Keys 
Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition
Florida Outreach Childbirth Education Program
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