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About Essential Nutrition Actions at Critical Stages in the Life Cycle of Women and Children

• During Preconception and Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding Mothers
• Benefits of Breastfeeding
• Common Breastfeeding difficulties
• Breastfeeding Resources
• Infants from birth to the first six months
  • FADUA - Frequency, Amount, Density, Use of food and Active feeding
• Infants from six months to one year
• Young Children from one year to three years
• Infant and young Child nutrition during and after illness

The following related knowledge tests and self assessment tools are currently in development

Knowledge Tests

• Breastfeeding
• Complementary Feeding and Feeding of Sick Child
• Women's Nutrition

Practices and behaviours self assessment tool

The following Essential Nutrition Actions (ENAs) are recommended:

• For Mothers during pregnancy
• At Delivery and Immediate Post-partum
• At Post Natal and during the first six months
• For young children between 6-59 months
• When child or mother is sick

The tool lists recommended nutrition practices and behaviours at family level as well as use of services and asks the user to assess himself / herself against them.

View The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) Key Messages
Key behaviours for optimal breastfeeding, complementary feeding and maternal nutrition at critical stages in the life cycle of women and children  12 pages 95kb
Source: ENA Counsellor’s guide – Linkages Project

View Adding a variety of vegetables to the child's diet greatly contributes to meeting micronutrient needs.

02 January, 2009