Breast is Best

 
Breastmilk is the best and most natural food for your baby. The World Health Organisation and the Ghana Health Service recommend that you breastfeed your baby exclusively for the first six months and then continue to breastfeed as you introduce weaning foods. This is the safest and best way to protect your baby’s [...]

A visit to the pediatric/children’s wards of major hospitals in this country will bring one face to face with the ravaging effects of severe malnutrition on young children, the commonest form being protein-energy malnutrition. Many of these cases are attributable to, the feeding of innocent young children by largely ignorant mothers, high carbohydrate diets, with [...]

Most children go through a phase of refusing to eat one food or another. The other day, after listening to my good friend pour out her heart about her son’s refusal to eat nothing else apart from mashed kenkey ( and at night of all times), I was convinced that this period in a child’s [...]