This blog post by Jennifer Nielsen was originally published on Seed to Sight, Helen Keller International’s blog, for Breastfeeding Awareness Month. My job as HKI’s senior program manager for nutrition and health is, in some ways, not unlike that of advertising executive. I sell a product. In my case, the product is not fancy shoes

Victoria Quinn, senior vice president of programs at Helen Keller International discusses why a child’s first 1,000 days of life are the most important. This piece was republished from the Huffington Post with permission from the author. There is a time in a child’s life that has a profound impact on her ability to grow,