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Activities
Activities under Mother
Support Group Project BPNI Maharashtra State
Branch.
- Pre-Delivery &
Post-Delivery Group counseling sessions
at maternity homes (Project covers approximately
35 maternity homes from Vileparle to Virar
in & around Mumbai. Individual help &
counseling to mothers with breastfeeding problems
before & after discharge from maternity
home.
- Community based
Pre-Delivery & Post-Delivery Group counselling
sessions.
- Training
of maternity nursing staff
in lactation management and breastfeeding
support.
- Helping new maternity facilities to change
their attitudes and practices toward a baby
friendly environment and maintain
their baby friendly status even without the
reassessment.
- Training of traditional
massage women (TMW) in correct
infant feeding, neonatal care & childcare
practices (340 TMW already trained).
- Breastfeeding awareness
drives (through talks) amongst
school and college students, women's groups,
and working women.
- Making family
physicians aware of the existence
of support available for mothers with breastfeeding
problems by forwarding their location, address
& telephone number.
- Organising and participating in World
Breastfeeding Week celebrations.
- Identifying prospective
MSG leaders from amongst the counseled
mothers. They take the responsibility of training
the new recruits.(Total certified MSG Leaders:
30)
- Lay the foundation for MSG activity in
other suburbs
of Mumbai and other
districts on Maharashtra State
by identifying nodal persons.(Virar-Vasai,
Mira Road-Bhayander, Andheri-Vileparle, Dombivali,
Pune & Amravati)
- They are now accepted as trainers
for lactation management
courses for doctors and nurses on simple
subjects.
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MSG Leaders
have formed an able second line for protection,
promotion & support of breastfeeding in
North-West Mumbai & have proved themselves
indispensable. The project has demonstrated
that MSG can be both community & maternity
home based. It has also demonstrated that MSG
leaders can  synchronize
& work along with the medical community
while independently maintaining their identity.
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