World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7, 2008
On the occasion of the World Breasteeding Week (August 1-7, 2008) Ms Noala Skinner, UNICEF Montenegro Representative, Dr Olivera Miljanovic, Director of the Clinical Centre of Montenegro, and Dr Snezana Crnogorac, Head of the Maternity Ward of the Clinical Centre of Montenegro, held a press conference in the Clinical Centre in Podgorica on August 6,2008. "In Montenegro, latest research reveals that only 19% of women exclusively breastfeed their children within the first six months and only every fourth woman breastfeeds her baby within the first hour after birth." said Noala Skinner, UNICEF Montenegro Representative at the press conference. Dr Miljanovic and Ms Skinner called upon Montenegro' women to provide their children the best start in life by breastfeeding them and urged family members and health workers to support women to breastfeed. This year, under the theme "Support for Mothers" the World Breastfeeding Week calls for greater support to mothers in infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively for six months and providing appropriate complementary foods with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond. World Breastfeeding Week Press Release
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