Eager Learners

We have been finishing up teaching on mother/child care in several of our villages. In this particular one it’s been exciting because the women have had lots of hands on experience. When we taught about mudstoves and did a demonstration with them, they got busy and have nearly 2 mudstoves in each of their 6 homes! We taught on weaning children and did a food demonstration. They taught the women and the women practiced it some. Then we went on to the last section of our teaching which is on caring for pregnant women and doing clean and safe deliveries.
Here again some of them have had hands-on experience for themselves. Three of the six women were pregnant. Two have delivered already. One of the traditions we have been trying to reverse is that women have been taught they must wait until the ‘milk comes in’ and then the milk has to be tested. In the meantime the baby and the mother suffer. Sometimes causing death. More and more women are learning and seeing the difference in the babies when the start nursing them the day of delivery.
That’s what one of our TBAs (trained birthing attendant) said. Her baby wasn’t vomiting or having diarrhea. She was ‘clean’. The mother is all smiles. Here are a few pictures of the teaching session on breast feeding. These pictures were taken by a real photographer.