Innovative breastfeeding spaces in Kenya are helping working mothers, including casual labourers, continue exclusive and extended breastfeeding despite economic and workplace challenges.
Innovative breastfeeding spaces in Kenya are helping working mothers,extended breastfeeding despite economic and workplace challenges.[Courtesy]
Hard economic times forced Tabitha Akinyi Onyango into casual work in Nyando’s rice fields to fend for her family shortly after giving birth to her fifth child.
But the mother of five was determined not to let financial constrain force her into introducing her daughter to complementary foods too early.
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