Vietnamese mother offers New Year’s wish for happy, healthy children
Mothers come in all sizes, shapes, and ages. Whether she’s 24 or 42, moms want what’s best for their baby. When it comes to nutrition, what’s best is breastmilk. On the third morning of the lunar...
View ArticleNo mess, no fuss: Traveling with breastfed baby in Viet Nam
Is your baby healthy enough to travel hundreds of kilometers by train at six months of age? The answer, according to Dao, is “Yes” thanks to the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. I met Dao on train...
View ArticleA&T Viet Nam celebrates World Breastfeeding Week 2013
Alive & Thrive supported six provinces in organizing eight breastfeeding events in August 2013 as part of World Breastfeeding Week. This year’s theme was Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers....
View ArticleGood feeding practices don’t just happen
On Friday, September 21, 2012, I gave birth in a nearby health center to my second daughter. Her father and I named her Bethlehem. We were happy. God had blessed our family with a healthy and strong...
View ArticleTiny Tales
Meet Sultana, a 26-year-old woman, living in rural Bangladesh. She and her husband have a 6-year-old daughter and another baby on the way. Follow Sultana and her family as they journey from pregnancy...
View ArticleWhy I’ve been promoting breastfeeding for 25 years
This is the 22nd year of World Breastfeeding Week, three years short of the number of years I’ve been promoting breastfeeding. How did someone who aspired to be an English teacher and came out of the...
View ArticleBreastfeeding against the odds in Viet Nam
As tour agent Le Huong Giang, 28, bounces her healthy 10-month old son in her lap, she recalls worries, difficulties, and proud accomplishments of the past year and a half. When first pregnant with...
View ArticleAlive & Thrive engages church leaders to improve nutrition in Ethiopia’s...
In large parts of Amhara region of Ethiopia, food availability and production are among the highest in the country. Yet, so are rates of chronic malnutrition (DHS, 2011). Alive & Thrive, in...
View ArticleWith her own newborn twins in the neonatal intensive care unit, this...
For weeks, Thuy noticed the human milk bank sign outside of the hospital on her way to work, but didn’t understand what it was … Little did she know she would soon become an active milk donor,...
View ArticleFrom Breast to Benefit: The Journey of Donor Human Milk
Human milk bank nurse during pasteurization process. Photo credit: Zoe Stathopoulos | Alive & Thrive In February 2017, the first human milk bank in Viet Nam was opened at the Da Nang Hospital for...
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