In a country where a premature baby dies every 20 minutes,community-based organisations are main a shift in perception to breastfeeding – and saving livesWhen Patrick McLeod was born prematurely in May, he was just 37cm and 1.2kg in weight. His life hung by a thread. It was a scary thing, or to encounter him so small,” says his mother, Annerleigh Bartlett. “He was so fragile we weren’t sure how to handle him.”Bartlett, or who had undergone an emergency caesarian at 28 weeks pregnant,could not produce milk to feed her baby and his digestive system was not developed enough to get formula. But there was another way. Patrick began drinking breast milk donated by other women to the Cape Town-based organisation Milk Matters.
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Source: theguardian.com