Human Milk Bank (HMB) services are an essential component of a breastfeeding-friendly health system, ensuring pre-term, low-birth-weight, and other vulnerable infants have the protections of breastmilk when they need it most.

Human milk bank services are an essential component of a breastfeeding-friendly health system. Such services give small and sick babies access to the multiple benefits of breastmilk by providing safe donor human milk.

With financial and technical support from Alive & Thrive and PATH, the Da Nang Department of Health launched Viet Nam’s first human milk bank at the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children.

Explains how to introduce and prepare nutritious foods, offers tips on how to avoid and deal with fussy eating, and answers mothers’ questions. Distributed to mothers in nutrition franchises in Viet Nam.

This leaflet identifies signs of fussy eating and provides tips for Vietnamese mothers on the feeding environment, food selection and preparation, and feeding methods to prevent fussing eating.

Explains how to introduce and prepare nutritious foods using different food groups, offers tips on how to avoid and deal with fussy eating, and answers questions raised by Vietnamese mothers.