Breastfeeding without a baby to hold Health Just now

She is trying to make her body do something it is not yet ready for: produce milk for a baby born too early to breastfeed, still too fragile to hold.

The country has good policies including the Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Strategy, the Breast Milk Substitutes Act, and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, and the frameworks exist too.“The body produces milk in response to signals: the pressure of a baby feeding, the hormone oxytocin released through skin contact, the emotional bond of proximity to a new-born.