Celebrating over 25 years of Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding through Health Professional Education

   

 

 

Our Vision

All Infants, mothers and families will reach and maintain the highest possible level of health and wellness such that each individual will be able to achieve his or her full potential to enjoy life’s opportunities and contribute to the peaceful progress of their national and the global community.

Our Mission

Wellstart International’s mission is to advance the knowledge, skills and abilities of health care providers regarding the promotion, protection and support of optimal infant and maternal health and nutrition from conception through the completion of weaning.
 

Revised

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Edición en Español.

The Revised 3rd Edition of Wellstart’s Lactation Management Self-Study Modules, Level 1. This educational tool is downloadable without charge.  Visitors are invited but not required to help this tool to continue to be available by donating any amount they wish to Wellstart International, a US based 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that is compliant with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
 

Users are also requested to send your name, professional school that you are affiliated with and an e-mail address to info@wellstart.org so that we may send you updates and alerts about relevant new materials and references.

  Breastfeeding Facts:

 

It has been recently estimated that 3,564 of the world's children under 5 years of age die each day (1,301,000 each year*) from causes that are preventable by optimal breastfeeding. In addition, for every child who dies, hundreds of others are sick and miserable from illnesses preventable with optimal breastfeeding. These children are the world's future. Much is already known about how to achieve optimal breastfeeding and the time to act on this knowledge is NOW! Not to do so is inexcusable.
*Jones, G, et al.
Lancet, 05, July, 2003  

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that exclusive breastfeeding should be continued for the first six months of an infant's life. Click here to read more about this in an article written by Wellstart's CEO, Audrey Naylor.

Babies are born to be breastfed. It's too important not to!

 

 


"We are guilty of many errors and faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the foundation of life. Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being made and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘tomorrow’. His name is Today."

                    Gabriela Mistral

 

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