Upcoming (Feb 11) webinar: Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support into Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
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#ChildHealth #ChildHunger #SDGs #Breastfeeding #IYCFE
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Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
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1. INTRODUCTION Breastfeeding infants and babies is lifesaving in emergencies. In emergencies, experiences such as displacement, disrupted services, gender-based violence (GBV), lack of privacy, donations of breast milk substitutes (BMS) including infant formula, and poor mental and physical wellbeing can create a situation in which breastfeeding is particularly challenging. Mothers and caregivers who do not have access to adequate support to prevent and overcome breastfeeding problems are more likely to introduce supplements and stop breastfeeding early. As such, there is an increased need for alternative feeding options, such as wet nursing, to safeguard the health and nutrition of infants and young children when their own mothers are unable to breastfeed or provide sufficient breast milk. 2. OBJECTIVES OF THE SCREENING TOOL This screening tool accompanies the UNICEF (2025) Technical and Operational Guidance on Supporting Access to Breast Milk Through Wet Nursing in Emergencies.
In June, @savethechildren.org @altusaid.altgov.info & the IFE Core Group developed a wet nurse screening tool for frontline health workers. It includes a medial history of the prospective wet nurse, and an assessment of her own child and coercion prevention.
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📄 PDF: tinyurl.com/537z2mux
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Canadian cities and towns: invest in spaces now for your own residents who are 8 days, 8 months, 8 years, 80 years old... and climate driven visitors who are vulnerable in evacuations, will be safe and welcome. #iycfe theconversation.com/canadian-cit...
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The universal symbol for breastfeeding, except this version has a little globe where the baby’s head should be, and there is a little heart over the breastfeeding persons chest. Breastfeeding, Food security, Sustainability
Dropping all of my recent posts about #breastfeeding + #FoodSecurity / food sovereignty, sustainability, and infant and young child feeding in emergencies ( #IYCFE ) in this thread 👇
And other resources as I come across them.
#OneHealth #ChildHealth #ClimateChange #IMMW2025 #Gaza #WBW2025 🛟
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A great article about #IYCFE as it pertains to Gaza, #ChildHunger, and the weaponization of food, written by an Irish legal scholar. The Irish know a thing or two about starvation as a tool of genocide.
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Which is why the WHO/UNICEF standard for #IYCFE is that a board-certified lactation consultant or lactation physician evaluate each dyad in a disaster area. It IS about formula because it is a product that cost money and prep requires a clean surface, potable water, and heat for boiling.
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A screen shot from a news article. An adorable baby in a bright yellow onesie lays in a medical cot, sleepily rubbing his eyes. He is very thin and looks much younger than he is, and has a bandage wrapped around one arm, as if from an IV port. The caption reads: Mohammed Aliwa is in hospital with severe malnutrition. Photograph: Seham Tantesh/The Guardian The clipped article text reads: Mohammed was born healthy but his motherwas too malnourished to produce breast milk and the family has only been able to get two cans of baby formula since.
Same story, different kid, this time in @theguardian.com.
Journalists, please, please talk to infant feeding experts. I will be happy to connect you with the best people out there. Accurate, properly contextualized information about infant feeding can and does save lives.
#IYCFE #journalism 🛟
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#IYCFE and breastfeeding advocacy has NEVER been about withholding formula, controlling women’s bodies, or pushing parenting philosophies. It is evidence-based public health policy, rooted in human rights and forged in the fires of conflicts and disasters over decades. Corporate greed LOVES war.
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This is why predatory formula marketing matters. This is why breastfeeding vs. formula is not a “lifestyle choice” but a *health equity issue.*
The more people in a community who are lactating, the more buffered the children in that community are from food insecurity.
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#IYCFE #PublicHealth 🛟
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I wrote about the genocide in Gaza, focusing on the urgent needs of babies & their mothers. It’s not easy to write about one group when everyone in Gaza is suffering - but this is the area I know, & where I can offer even a very small act of advocacy.
#Gaza #IYCFE
www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
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Infant and young child feeding in emergencies on the island of Ireland: guidance for creating an all-island preparedness plan
So excited to be at the launch of this important project! Towards all-island #IYCFE #InfantFeeding in #Emergencies preparedness @fleuranderson.bsky.social @lllgb.bsky.social #ALCI #HSE @tudublin.bsky.social iycfe.org
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I had an opportunity today to contribute to a Canadian framework to improve the way we plan for emergencies and disasters by considering vulnerabilities related to sex and gender. It was refreshing to see important work like this continuing as we all adjust to the new USA. #IYCFE
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This infographic aims to help implement the guidance specific to donations in the Operational Guidance for #IYCFE www.ennonline.net/sites/defaul...
(Note #USAID funding.)
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🧵1/🚫 Infant Formula Donations in Emergencies = A Hidden Risk 🚫
People donate formula during disasters thinking it helps. It doesn’t. Without clean water, sterilisation & power, formula feeding increases deadly risks like infection, malnutrition, and dependency. #BreastfeedingIsFoodSecurity #IYCFE
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Canadians concerned about infant food security, please consider signing this letter to the federal government. #IYCFE docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Front cover of “HIV and Infant Feeding in Emergencies Operational Guidance” by WHO and UNICEF includes illustration of three people, one with dark hair and pale skin, one with brown skin in traditional woman’s clothing, one pale skin and brown hair, all with babies in arms, amid various disasters - an image of unclean water coming from a tap, an electrical rainstorm, a field of tents in a displaced persons camp or emergency shelter, the ruins of a hospital building.
URGENT pls share
“HIV & Breastfeeding in Emergencies” : when antiretroviral (#ARV) drugs are not immediately available and replacement feeding isn’t available & safe, recommend exclusive #breastfeeding for first 6 mo & continue #bfing thereafter #IYCFE www.who.int/publications...
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Can you share a link where this is housed? I’ve referred it to the #IYCFE Hub. :-)
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Reading: “Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency” by @smwiebe.bsky.social - fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/hot-mess #IYCFE
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😵💫What bothers me really is that we have the Operational Guidance translated into Turkish.It can be adapted to the cultural/institutional national context but no one seems to work on it🤯 #infantfeedinginemergencies #breastfeedingsupportinemergencies #iycfe #odbb #olağanüstüdurumlardabebekbeslenmesi
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No idea if # in comments has an impact, let's try #iycfe #afet #depremehazırlık #infantfeedinginemergency #ife
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Great news - the Operational Guidance for #Breastfeeding Counselling in Emergencies is now available in Arabic and Spanish! www.ennonline.net/breastfeedin... #IYCFE
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Read more about mothers supporting mothers, and GINA’s work with the Global Nutrition Cluster here:
www.instagram.com/gaza.infant....
#iycf #iycfe #unicef #unicefbfi
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⚠️ Need breastfeeding as 1st #FoodSecurity in #ClimateResilience #ClimatePolicy
➡️Structural support in health system + in communities
➡️ #PaidLeave, supportive work policies
➡️Strong regulations on marketing of commercial milk formulas
➡️ #IYCFE in prep & response www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
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For those supporting the #HurricaneHelene #Helene response, this is also an infant and young child feeding emergency #IYCFE - the CDC has a great toolkit for both responders and the public here www.cdc.gov/infant-feedi...
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Cannot stress this enough: Americans should NOT donate #infantformula to be sent to #Ukraine. Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies #IYCFE is a VERY special situation. Please mind these guidelines: https://safelyfed.ca/home/safelyfed-europe/
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#IYCFE “Mothers in emergencies need to be encouraged that their milk is best for their babies despite stress. Psychosocial supports to help mothers realize their milk quality remains intact facilitates continued breastfeeding.” Via @AunPalmquist #iycfe #safelyfed
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