Dr Saloni Jain

ADHERENCE TO INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING (IYCF) GUIDELINES AMONG MOTHERS ATTENDING A RURAL IMMUNIZATION CLINIC

The first one thousand days of life — from conception to a child's second birthday — shape health more powerfully than almost any other period. How infants and young children are fed during this window determines not only their survival but their growth, cognitive development, an...

WALKING THE EMOTIONAL TIGHTROPE

At 2:47 on a Sunday morning, Maya sends a message she will regret by breakfast. Twelve words, typed in thirty seconds, end a friendship of six years. By noon she is sobbing — not because the friendship meant nothing, but because it meant everything. The fear of abandonment did no...