Satisfy your husbands’ with breast milk if they desire it, Physician counsels women

Dr Ejiro Iwuoha, a Consultant Public Health Physician, Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) Aba, has charged women to satisfy their husbands with breast milk if they desire it while nursing babies stating that men sharing babies's breast milk is not harmful.
 

Iwuoha gave the counsel in her office Tuesday during an interview with our reporter in Aba.

She said that men from time past loved the breast hence“the Bible says that the breast of your wife should satisfy you so men are already used to breast-feeding. 

“So if the babies come and the men are still interested, although the breast milk does not taste wonderful, your husband’s interest in suckling does not spoil the breast milk for the baby. 

“Breast-feeding mothers whose husbands want to suckle should not worry because it will not affect the baby”.

The physician also counseled women to desist from believing their breasts would sag because they breast-fed their babies exclusively adding that breasts are timed products which would fall with age.

Iwuoha also called for the establishment of crèches in work places to improve compliance with exclusive breast feeding.

Crèches are workplace nurseries where babies are cared for by women who are paid for the service given while a nursing mother is at work.

Iwuoha said that the absence of crèches in most work places and markets was a challenge needing attention because of their contribution to effective exclusive breast feeding.

“Crèches are very important. With the awareness we are creating for mother to breastfeed their babies appropriately, this is a challenge that should be addressed.

“It could be attended to by non-governmental organizations. A group can decide to provide a space which does not cost much, just paying those that will take care of the space and the babies while their mothers work.

“What it takes is a convenient space with seats where mothers can seat comfortably and feed their babies and somebody that will care for the babies while the nursing mothers work or do their businesses.

 “I want to use this opportunity to call on non-governmental organizations, Organized Private Sector (OPS) to make this provision for the betterment of our children because if we have healthy children, we will have healthy communities and a healthy nation,” Iwuoha said.

She said that the provision of crèches would increase the rate of compliance with exclusive breast-feeding which the government and its agencies are campaigning for.