To reduce the dangers of childbearing, all pregnant women should go to a health worker for prenatal care and all births should be assisted by a trained person. For the first few months of a baby's life, breastmilk alone is the best possible food and drink. Infants need other foods, in addition to breastmilk, when they are about six months old. Children under three have special feeding needs. They need to eat five or six times a day and their food should be specially enriched by adding mashed vegetables and small amounts of fats or oils.
Diarrhoea can kill by draining too much liquid from a child's body.
If the illness is more serious than usual, the child needs help from a health worker - and the special ORS drink. A child with diarrhoea also needs food to make a good recovery. Immunization protects against several diseases which can cause poor growth, disability, and death. All immunizations should be completed in the first year of a child's life. Every woman of child-bearing age should be immunized against tetanus.