AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
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- Title
- AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
- Creator
- Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Date
- 1995
- 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
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169377
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Extent
- 10 pages
- Rights
- Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Rights Holder
- Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Publisher
- Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Item sets
- General Materials
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