Nigeria: Saving Lives - Nigeria's First Breast Milk Bank Gives Babies a Fighting Chance

[Nigeria Health Watch] Chibuike Alagboso and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead Writer -- When Kehinde (not real name) set out on the nearly 130km journey from Ibadan to Lagos, he had a clear goal in mind: to get the conviction he required to receive breast milk donated through a breast milk bank. His wife was having challenges with her milk flow at the time and had made the journey previously to the breast milk bank. Their baby had started showing signs of being underweight and constipated, and Kehinde had been reluctant to use the breast milk bank. However, when their baby was readmitted to
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Nutrition Pregnancy and Childbirth Sustainable Development West Africa Source Type: news