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In the densely populated slum of Manyatta B in Kisumu, a young mother rocks her baby gently under the shade of a tattered iron sheet roof. The baby fusses and cries, not from illness, but hunger. For 22-year-old Nancy Akinyi, breastfeeding has been an uphill battle from the moment her child was born.
“This is my first baby. He’s now one year and two months old. When I gave birth at 21, I didn’t know how to breastfeed,” she says. “I didn’t have milk. I went to the hospital and was told it would come later. I was advised to eat well, but even now, I still don’t have enough milk.”
Nancy’s solution is to feed her baby thick porridge to fill his tiny stomach.
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