New York, April 25 -- According to latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) data in India, 36% of children are stunted, 32% are underweight, and 21% are wasted. All that despite 64% of women exclusively breastfeeding their babies. Behind this alarming data is the barely known fact - pervasive poor breastfeeding techniques that result in babies constantly crying for milk and mother's giving up in frustration to switch prematurely to external baby feeds if they can afford & easily find.

WHEELS Global Foundation (a social impact platform of global IIT alumni community)'s Newborn Nutritional Health Initiative is scaling pioneering work of IIT Bombay's Health Spoken Tutorials (HST) team to address pervasive newborn malnutrition at scale....