Essential support required from healthcare professionals
- Critical support aimed at enabling and maintaining breastfeeding.
- Prenatal and postnatal visits with HCPs to allow continuous care.
- Postnatal visits to HCPs during the first year of babies lives because it is of fundamental importance in order to provide ongoing nutritional counselling in accordance with established guidelines and to guide and support successful continuation of breastfeeding or, in its absence, the use of appropriate infant formulas.
- Instruction on complementary nutrition as the child grows is of major importance, it ensures the adequate intake of macro and micronutrients and avoidance of possible dietary difficulties.4
Nutritional guidance by HCPs is therefore of paramount importance in order to monitor and ensure growth and adequate cognitive development of the infant, and to establish healthy eating habits that will accompany the individual throughout life.
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