Assistant Professor, Amity University, Gurgaon
Online published on 15 March, 2019.
Everything in Breast Crawl is perfectly designed by nature. The skin-to-skin contact helps the baby to remain warm and initiates mother-baby bonding. Baby's kicking on mother's abdomen stimulates uterus to contract thereby reducing bleeding and enhances expulsion of placenta. The baby smells food close by, begins salivating, reaches areola and initiates breast feeding by itself.
Breast Crawl had tremendous potential to change initiation practices. It deserves worldwide dissemination for improving initiating rates, breast feeding success and ultimately reducing neonatal, infant and under five mortality rate and morbidity by early initiation of breast feeding.
