I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty easy pregnancy, my daughter was born by emergency C-section after her heart rate...
Ghana’s maternity leave -Nursing mothers need up to five months to recuperate as well as bond better with their infants, so says the First Lady of the country Rebecca Akufo-Addo. The first...
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been condemned for comments that girls who give birth should not be allowed to return to school. An online petition has been set up and a pan-African...
An egg a day might help undernourished young children grow to a healthy height, according to a six-month study in Ecuador. Whether soft or hard-boiled, fried or whisked into an omelette, eggs...
Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself nor buy in a camp near the Iraqi battleground city of Mosul. "He's been crying...
A woman from Atlanta has sparked outrage on social media after publicly announcing that she quit her job to breastfeed her 36-year-old bodybuilder boyfriend. Speaking to The Sun, Jennifer Mulford...
Deputy Western Regional Minister Mrs. Eugenia Kusi, has joined all well-wishers to celebrate mothers in the country. Below is her message. A mother’s love, how sweet the name, The warmest love that...
The discussion for an extension of maternity leave for nursing mothers is fast growing among Ghanaian workers as it appears to be gaining more momentum. Most companies in Ghana grant nursing mothers...
Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a...
A Greens senator has made Australian political history by becoming the first person to breastfeed a baby in the nation's parliament. Larissa Waters returned to the upper house Senate for the first...
Former Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Samia Nkrumah has called for an extension of maternity leave from the current three months to at least six months. In a May Day message, the former Chairperson...
The sound of a baby crying is nearly impossible to ignore and triggers an urgent response from Mom or Dad. Your baby is fully dependent on you, and you want to do everything you can to stop the...
Some Cambodian mothers have been selling their breast milk to women in the US, in a controversial practice that has now been banned. But the case has raised questions about whether these women have...
Cambodia officially banned selling and exporting locally-pumped human breast milk on Tuesday, after reports exposed how women were turning to the controversial trade to boost meagre incomes in one of...
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans, hitting out at the commercialisation of nutrients needed by babies inside the...
Cambodia has temporarily stopped an American company from exporting locally-pumped human breast milk, AFP has learned, after reports highlighted how some of the country's poorest women were...
Two parents who had frightening experiences at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi have given a grim account of how babies are exposed to deadly infections at the hospital. Mrs Arthur and Mr...
The bizarre wording of a certain song among the people of Eastern Nigeria enquires: “would a man ever refuse breastfeeding?” And it choruses the answer “No”. The singer goes on to explain: if...
United Nations (UN) human rights experts have urged countries to end the inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes and other foods intended for infants and young children. They emphasized...
The Agona Swedru Municipal Hospital in the Central Region on Thursday observed the world prematurity day to raise awareness of pre-term birth and the concerns of pre-term babies and their families....
