World Breastfeeding Week 2022: a call for deliberation

Abstract

The last World Breastfeeding Week (SMLM, its initials in spanish) was a proper moment to deliberate on the facts, values and duties that are related to breastfeeding in order to give it value as a human phenomenon capable of providing well-being and creating healthy, emotionally stable and more fair. Along with the indicators that show the consumption of breastmilk in the child population, facts and values of mothers, fathers, civil society are examined; the health system, labor and development models. The duties are organized in optimal outputs that are grouped in the steps of the Initiative for the Humanization of Birth and Breastfeeding Assistance (IHAN, its initials in spanish), the warm chain of support; as well as in the policies of humanization and quality of service of the governing bodies of health. The deliberation shows the mother as the center of attention and her duty in charity for her baby; also the responsibility of health personnel as protagonists of change, supporting, educating and basing the value that breastfeeding has for both development model.