AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1

Title: AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
Creator: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Subject: AIA
Date Issued: 1995
Date: 1995
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169377
Identifier: vital:41744
Description: Sowa, January 3, 1994 (AIA/Caitlin Davies) — Mercy Manakedi Theetso is 29 and has four children. She breast-fed her first child for 18 months, her second for eight months, and she didn’t breast-feed her third child at all. “I was working and the baby stayed with my mother so we used a bottle for the first four months, then we used a cup,” explains Theetso. “Myself, I like to breast-feed but I don’t have the time.” In the 1960s Botswana’s medical practitioners began giving new-born babies the bottle. Now, 30 years later, there is a concerted effort by the Botswana government to promote a return to breast-feeding. But as women have gone out of the home to work, reversing the trend is not an easy task. However, breast-feeding does remain popular in Botswana. “It’s a culturally acceptable norm,” says Virkloti Morewane of UNICEF, and boys and girls are fed for the same amount of time.
Format: 10 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Language: English
Rights: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Rights: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher

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