A charity worker, Dr Isaac Bot, has said that not few women in the northeast are breastfeeding babies they are not their mothers.
The trend, the doctor said was because majority of deaths are recorded among women in the ongoing insurgency.
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Dr. Bot narrated the story of a grandmother thought to be in her 50s, who kept her starving grandchild alive by breastfeeding the child while on the run from Boko Haram.
The grandmother, Aisha Modu(pictured), according to him, lost her daughter 40 days after the latter gave birth.
Aisha’s husband was also abducted by insurgents, forcing her to flee on foot with her grandchild in her arms.
‘We started a process called Supplementary Suckling Technique where we put a little tube into the baby’s mouth beside the nipple and so when the baby suckles it is rewarded with milk. This suckling also sends a message to Aisha’s brain to stimulate milk production,’ Dr. Bot, who runs a clinic where Aisha was referred to after finding her way to a charity home, Save the Children where she now lives with her grandchild said.
Dr. Bot said further: ‘Aisha came in with her granddaughter and was very anxious about where she was. Being from such a remote part of the country she was not familiar with hospitals.
‘She was jittery about the environment and was confused and apprehensive.
‘I asked if she was getting support from anywhere else and she said she had nobody. She broke down and cried when she told us this. It was very emotional.'[email-subscribers namefield=”YES” desc=”” group=”Public”]
