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Dear Parent Unable To Breastfeed Your Baby For Whatever Reason

I hope you know you’re doing ok if your baby is fed, in whatever way! This letter is “permission” if that’s what you have been waiting for, to be the expert on you and your child.

You know what's best for you! No matter what the world comes up with to marginalise you and to invalidate your efforts to merely stay alive for your baby, know that you are important, you and your baby’s experiences are valid, and you and your baby’s health including your mental health are more important in this season than anything else.

Yours

Editor's Comment
Mabogo dinku a thebana

According to both the acting director of Veterinary Services, Kobedi Segale and acting Lands and Agriculture minister, Edwin Dikoloti, the virus currently raging through the North-East mostly likely first entered the country during the festive season.From the “unprecedented” number of cases picked in testing last week, it is likely that cattle and other livestock could have been infected last year, without being reported.Animal health...

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