Reducing Stunting Through Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies

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Monday, October 24, 2016

How does Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies (HTSP) impact stunting in children?

Properly timed and spaced pregnancies dramatically reduce the likelihood of stunting. Mothers cannot sufficiently breast-feed or care for the older sibling when a new baby is competing for nutrients, so the older child in the critical 1,000-day window (from conception to age 2) often loses out on being breastfed— a critical component of childhood nutrition that lowers the risk of stunting.