We all know that breastfeeding is the best food for the baby, but the mother does not always find enough information or support to overcome the difficulties that may arise. Therefore the idea of Baby coffee as a meeting place for mothers and support for breastfeeding seems great.
The "Baby Café" were born in hospitals in the United Kingdom, where spaces were established where nursing mothers can come together to breastfeed their babies and share their experiences, and the general public can receive medical guidance on the benefits for the mother binomial. son, as well as the techniques to follow.
As another strategy to continue promoting breastfeeding by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Baby Café has been operating since last year in several hospitals in Mexico, although they work in different places in the world: most are in the United Kingdom, but also in the United States, China, New Zealand ...
It is important that the Baby Café be placed in a non-clinical, quiet, informal, safe and child-friendly environment, where to breastfeed the baby in the normal way of feeding and caring for the child. The objectives of all these Baby coffees are:
Promote the physical and psychological health of mothers and children through training and education in breastfeeding.
Increase general knowledge of the short and long term benefits of breastfeeding. Attendees will receive the latest information on breastfeeding from experts and professionals.
Continue education among volunteers who support breastfeeding mothers.
It is also important for mothers to meet other moms who breastfeed their baby. In Spain we talk about an initiative that can also help many mothers, the possibility of making telephone consultations about breastfeeding, and there are other possibilities closer such as breastfeeding support groups and associations, the specialists accompanying the puerperium ...
In any case, the possibility of accessing this space for free and the implication of the environment that would allow its establishment would always be good news, which in these times of crisis I do not think it will be extended too much.
At the moment in Spain there is no Baby café, a meeting place between mothers and breastfeeding support, but fortunately we have other possibilities to meet with other mothers and contact professionals seeking that complicity and help.
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