{"id":7172,"date":"2020-03-17T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:04:45","slug":"national-guidelines-on-infant-and-young-child-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/national-guidelines-on-infant-and-young-child-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Prelims: Polity: Governance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/feeding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7173\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/feeding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/feeding.jpg 259w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/feeding-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per the National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health and thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond. Infant milk substitute or infant food should only be used, if recommended on health grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 objectives \u00a0of\u00a0 the\u00a0 National\u00a0\u00a0 Guidelines\u00a0 on\u00a0 IYCF\u00a0 are\u00a0 to bring about improvement in optimal\u00a0 feeding practices for infants and young children and raise awareness for\u00a0 achieving\u00a0 optimal\u00a0\u00a0 feeding\u00a0 practices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Masumeh_Saeidi\/publication\/284173107\/figure\/fig2\/AS:667787739549710@1536224412756\/Benefits-of-complementary-feeding-1.ppm\" alt=\"Image result for National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following steps have been taken by Government to ensure Infant and Young Child Feeding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infant\u00a0 Milk\u00a0 Substitutes\u00a0 Feeding\u00a0 Bottles,\u00a0 and\u00a0 Infant\u00a0 Foods\u00a0 (Regulation\u00a0 of\u00a0 Production,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supply\u00a0 and\u00a0 Distribution) Act,\u00a0 1993,\u00a0 as\u00a0 amended\u00a0 2003,\u00a0 has\u00a0 been\u00a0 enacted\u00a0 in\u00a0 the\u00a0 country\u00a0 to protect, promote and support breastfeeding and ensure proper use of infant foods.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Anganwadi Services Scheme, counselling is provided to Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers on infant and young child feeding practices.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0 Pradhan\u00a0 Mantri\u00a0\u00a0 Matru\u00a0 Vandana\u00a0 Yojana (PMMVY),\u00a0 which\u00a0 is\u00a0 a\u00a0 centrally\u00a0 sponsored\u00a0 Conditional Maternity\u00a0 Benefit\u00a0 scheme\u00a0 of\u00a0 the Government\u00a0 for\u00a0 pregnant\u00a0 and\u00a0 lactating\u00a0 women, under\u00a0 which cash\u00a0 incentives\u00a0 are\u00a0 provided partly\u00a0 compensating\u00a0 for\u00a0 their\u00a0 wage\u00a0 loss\u00a0 to improve\u00a0 health seeking behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women &amp; Lactating Mothers. Recent amendment in Maternity Benefit Act is another important step in strengthening the IYCF practices.<\/li>\n<li>The POSHAN\u00a0 Abhiyaan focuses on social\u00a0 and behavioural\u00a0 change communication and thus explicitly\u00a0 paving\u00a0 the\u00a0 way\u00a0 for\u00a0 a\u00a0 mass\u00a0 movement\u00a0 to\u00a0 promote\u00a0 a\u00a0 transformative\u00a0 change, to\u00a0 address\u00a0 the\u00a0 malnutrition\u00a0 related\u00a0 challenges\u00a0 and create awareness on holistic nutrition including promotion of optimal\u00a0 infant and young child feeding\u00a0 practices.<\/li>\n<li>Early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding for first six months and appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices are promoted under Mothers\u2019 Absolute Affection (MAA) in convergence with Ministry of Women and Child Development.<\/li>\n<li>Home Based Care for Young Children (HBYC) has been initiated as an extension of Home Based Newborn Care (HBNC) to provide community based care by ASHA workers with focus on improvement in child rearing practices, nutrition counselling and breastfeeding promotion till 15th month of life.<\/li>\n<li>Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Days (VHSNDs) are observed for provision of maternal and child health services and creating awareness on maternal and child care in convergence with Ministry of Women and Child Development. Health and nutrition education through mass and social media is also promoted to improve healthy practices and to generate demand for service uptake.<\/li>\n<li>Revised Mother and Child Protection Card is the joint initiative of the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare and the Ministry of Woman and Child Development. It is an effective counselling tool for use of front line workers to address the nutrition concerns and improving IYCF practices in children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prelims: Polity: Governance As per the National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) infants should be exclusively breastfed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}