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    "content": "will not have to run for Calpol and cough syrups. I bought so many antibiotics until my son was immune to them at some point. Why? Because I rushed into formulas with my first son, a mistake I did not make with my second. I now want to speak to our mothers because they have also become hostage. It might not be formulas; they are hostage to thinking that breast milk is not enough. I do not blame them because maybe during their time, that was the thinking. Today, the thinking is that you must breastfeed your child for six months exclusively. If you told that to my mother she would, probably, have just laughed because she would not believe that a child can survive for six months on breast milk only. Now my niece, who is her grand-daughter, has breastfed her first great grand- son for six months. So, she has now become a firm believer in breast feeding a child exclusively for six months. These little things that mothers make for babies, let them make them for the mother. Let them make mokimo or uji for the mother, but let them allow their daughters to breastfeed exclusively for six months. Sometimes, daughters do not know what to tell their mothers because their mothers know best. Today we, the Government, doctors and nutritionists are saying that breastfeeding a child is not only giving them health but also gives the mother calmness, encourages bonding and reduces the occurrence of opportunistic infections. I want to finish by talking about the uterus and the contraction of the uterus because this is another thing that is not known. When you breastfeed - you said you might not know a lot, this I am sure you do not know - the retraction of the uterus is very important when a woman has given birth. That is encouraged by breastfeeding. There are studies that show that breastfeeding also reduces the chances of breast cancer. We all know that we have a big campaign and we must be able to fight uterine cancer. If there is anything we have learnt in this country in the last one year, and the country has come to appreciate, it is the cost of treating cancer. So, I am telling women humbly, breastfeed your children; breastfeed your babies. You will not only be doing your child a favour but also yourself and this country. I inform the Minister that we will support her totally in this campaign; I thank her and her officers who have brought this Bill to the Floor, and for being unashamed of doing the little things that matter to women, which are also the big things that change our country With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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