THE IDEAL PERIOD FOR NATURAL NURSING

What is the ideal period for breastfeeding a child to obtain full nutrition, smartness, and strong immunity? Does this period agree with what is mentioned in the book of Allah Almighty?….

In celebration of World Breastfeeding week, World Health Organization director general Dr Margaret Chan says: “the best way of preventing malnutrition and mortality among infants and young children is to ensure that they start breastfeeding within one hour of birth.”

In her speech celebrating World Breastfeeding week from the 1st to the 7th of August 2009, Margaret stresses the significance of “breastfeeding exclusively with no food or liquid other than breast milk, not even water until six months of age and to continue breastfeeding with appropriate complementary foods up to two years or beyond.”

The studies assure that breastfeeding in the first two years of any child’s life is important for strengthening the immune system’s response, avoiding different diseases, providing children with stronger abilities concerning thinking and problem solving, and many other benefits for natural nursing.

From here, we remember Allah’s recommendation that came before the health organization or other doctors when He Almighty said: “The mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years, for those who desire to complete the term of suckling” [Al-Baqarah: 233].

We say: this is a new proof for everyone who disbelieves the prophethood of our majestic Muhamed (peace be upon him). Who taught the noble prophet of the seventh century about the ideal period of breastfeeding which agrees with the health organization in the twenty-first century.

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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
Website: www.kaheel7.com/eng

Source:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/world_breastfeeding_week_20090731/en/index.html — with Prince Oladimeji Rofeeu Ajehunayo and Zulaikha Rabdiya.