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An important reminder

Babies must not be deprived of their mother's milk

Staff Correspondent
Suraiya's case is a reminder of the importance of breastfeeding to help build a strong immune system in an infant when medicine cannot do much.
She suffered complications since her premature Caesarean delivery after she was hit with a bullet in her mother's womb.
Suraiya has been recovering from jaundice and edema since she began receiving her mother's milk, said her doctor Kaniz Hasina (Sheuli), a paediatrician of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Breast milk contains antibodies that help protect infants from common childhood diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two primary causes behind child mortality, according to the World Health Organisation.
It also cites research findings that eight lakh babies could be saved worldwide only if children were breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months, and continued with breastfeeding up to the age of two years.
This year's World Breastfeeding Week from August 1-7 calls for concerted global action to support women in balancing out breastfeeding their children and work with recommendations like limited marketing of breast milk substitutes and employers should be encouraged to make work
flexible for nursing mothers.
A campaign is also on for paid maternity leave and a place and time for working mothers to express breast milk.
However, mothers in Bangladesh often feel embarrassed out of the privacy of home when it comes to breastfeeding. Not many workplaces have creches and areas for women to breastfeed their babies. Even hospitals lack space to facilitate breastfeeding.
Five and a half-month-old Aritra is among those who are fed milk formula because his mother's workplace does not have childcare.
His mother joined work after a sixmonth maternity leave and since then the child is bottle-fed at least twice a day.
Sharing her experience, Aritra's mother said she had to go to a paediatrician at a private hospital in Dhanmondi with her four-month-old son suffering from diarrhoea.
After spending an hour in traffic jam and another one and a half hours at the waiting room, her baby began to cry.
"I had to go to the parking area to feed my son inside my car. The hospital did not have a corner for breastfeeding though paediatricians practise
there."
An employee of Bangladesh Bank, whose second baby is now just two months' old, said her workplace had good but very limited arrangement for childcare. Only a lucky few get the service.
She said she had to feed her baby milk formula whenever she went out for a long time since public places in Dhaka rarely had space for nursing mothers to breastfeed their babies.
As shown in Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2014, 55 percent children are exclusively breast-fed until tire age of six months.
"Breast milk has all the nutrients that a child needs for its development until the age of six months," said SK Roy, chairman of Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation.
Nevertheless many parents give substitute milk to their babies when their mothers fail to give them enough breast milk. In most of these cases, mothers are not aware of how they should feed their babies, Roy said.
"I was upset when my baby was crying for not getting breast milk just a day after the delivery. I did not know how to feed the baby.
"I think hospitals should train first-time mothers in breastfeeding their babies," said Aritra's mother.