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#IMSS.- Martha Verónica Murillo Gómez, coordinator of nursing programs, indicated that it is important to go to family medicine, PrevenIMSS modules and in collaboration with Social Work and nutrition personnel for each consultation.

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) through the preconception and prenatal consultation promotes the care of women before and during their pregnancy, with the purpose of going to their consultations with the family doctor and an assessment is made to know the conditions in which they are before conception, thus achieving a better control of pregnancy and healthy development of the baby.

The coordinator of Nursing Programs, Martha Verónica Murillo Gómez, commented that women who plan to become pregnant should go for preconception and prenatal consultations at least six times during the pregnancy.

«It is important that in each consultation she also attends the PrevenIMSS modules and in collaboration with social work and nutrition personnel so that her pregnancy is carried out optimally, in the best conditions and with good development for her and her baby,» she said.

She emphasized that it is important to maintain the baby’s healthy nutrition, «from birth, colostrum is a primary food, it is the first milk that is generated by the immediate attachment and skin-to-skin contact with the mother, and it must be exclusively breast milk, without giving any other liquid, until the sixth month of life».

Murillo Gómez added that from the seventh month complementary feeding begins, which is the inclusion of foods according to their age group and continue breastfeeding up to two years of age or older.

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