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The City of Murcia, through the Department of Health and Sports who runs Felipe Coello, has launched an information and awareness to support and promote breastfeeding campaign, an initiative framed in the European project 'Together: Healthy healthy for you, for both'.

The aim of the campaign, launched on the occasion of the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week from 1 to 7 August, it is to increase breastfeeding rates, raise awareness and communicate the benefits for both mother and baby, focusing in all aspects related to health, the economy and sustainable development.

In addition, it also aims to identify and provide the key importance to community resources through support groups for breastfeeding.

The campaign, which was developed with the support of the Midwives Association of the Region of Murcia, disseminated in all health centers in the municipality, educational materials for health to support the advice of health professionals who report on the benefits, key to a good start breastfeeding in the first hours after birth, and to keep it permanently.

www.togerther-project.eu/es: consultations and interviews with experts in nursing wew project will also be published.

According Coello has indicated "exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life, it is the most safe, healthy and sustainable food, because it provides all the nutrients of highest quality."

In addition, added the Minister of Health, "during the first 6 months of life, children have a lower risk of diarrhea, respiratory infections, middle ear infections and sudden infant death syndrome compared to those fed artificial feeding children, presenting a reduction up to 50% on the property morbidity first year of life. "

Despite its benefits, according to the latest National Health Encesta, the percentage of breastfeeding in Spain is very low (66.2% at 6 weeks of age, 53.6% at 3 months and 28.5% to 6 months).

Coello pointed out that "municipal data from more than 600 surveys in 2015 and 2016 for the diagnosis of the situation of the European Project, note that 91% of pregnant plans to give exclusive breastfeeding your baby, but only 58% of women with infants at 4 months of life are able to maintain this exclusive breastfeeding. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia