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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Mr. Kimunya has given his experience with his mother, Maria, I would also like to give my experience. I will explain to Mr. Kimunya how to bond with his children because he has posed that question. I have a family of four and these children wanted to come to this world a bit early; all of them. When they came a bit early the issue was, do we subject them to formula milk or do we subject them to the mother’s milk? We made it a family policy that the mother would breastfeed them for one year. What happens is that because of that aspect of selflessness, the milk increases. Those mothers who leave their children in the incubators in hospitals and they do not go back to express milk, what happens is that their breast ducts actually dry up. As a result, the children continue feeding on formula milk. These four children have grown up to be mature children and now they have their own children. I would really support this Bill because it is necessary that we make sure that we breastfeed our children. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish Mr. Kimunya could listen to me. What happens is that if your wife feeds a child, the next thing is to remove gas. I am sure that the mothers who are here know that you have to remove gas and hand him over to his father. You massage the baby’s back and the baby removes gas through the mouth. I think because he was a mother’s child, he did not have the opportunity to be given to the next person to remove the gas. So, you can create a bond with your children. This is an experience I would like to say has gone a long way. I happened to meet a Senior Deputy Director of Medical Services, with whom I shared this responsibility in Mombasa. It is a great experience that must be explained to the mothers so that they can breastfeed their children. The Minister has talked about the antigens that come from the mother and the inter-personal relationship that is established between the mother and her baby. Body language is learnt at that stage. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a wonderful Bill. I hope that everybody will support it. It is not meant to push out the industrialists but rather to ensure that mothers support breast-feeding to save our children. I would like to tell them that the experience I have had with Mrs. Mureithi is one that must be shared. She would go out of her way to take care of children who had been deserted by their parents. These are some of the blessings that we get when we feed our children with what God has created for us. We should not remove that attribute from us. So, the Constitution is very clear, under Articles 26 and 53(2) on the rights of children. They are all entitled to life. So, when you create a system that would make them die, you are breaking the Constitution. Therefore, I want to encourage the Minister to push this Bill until it becomes law. With those remarks, I support."
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