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    "content": "I want to reiterate what has already been said to the Minister, hon. Mugo, thank you, you are there when you are needed to be there, and you have been able to bring this Bill to this House. I cannot say it any better. The bond between the mother and the child is always through breastfeeding. I will not go into the descriptions that Mrs. Shebesh went through about the everlasting bond that makes it, that a mother can never think of leaving the child in times of war or crisis. That is why even when we look at the crisis that is ongoing in the Tana Delta, we are seeing that all the time it is the women and their children who are left behind. We do not know whether some of the men happened to have taken off. I want to say that when we talk about poverty levels, when we talk about poverty, women are the face of poverty in Kenya. If you want to bring up healthy Kenyans, please reduce poverty. Since women are the face of poverty, when you reduce it they are able to breastfeed their children properly and are able to bring forth strong children who can take this nation to the next level. I would like to urge the Government that if you achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Four and Five, they are about women. What we are saying is that there is a connection between poverty and mothers not being able to breastfeed their children as they should. On the question of denying a child--- Young woman think they will be destroying what has come to be associated with--- I would say that breasts have come to be associated more with sex than being specifically for procreation. If you think the job of the breast is sex then you miss the point. You can still have it for what you want it to do, but make sure that the first job that the breast is supposed to do is to feed the child, and make sure that if you bring a child into this world, you are able to look after it by giving it breast milk until it is old enough. This will make them immune to diseases that children are prone to if they have not been breastfed. For us to be able to support women, and for the country to be able to support breastfeeding, we must have facilities. We must put facilities in all the institutions or offices that can then support women when they are breastfeeding. They should be installed in nurseries, in Bunge and other offices. Breastfeeding mothers must be enabled to breastfeed their children by these facilities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not in that bracket of young women or the age of breastfeeding and do not wish to go into it at my age, but I would encourage the women who are in the child bearing bracket to make sure that they do their duty and responsibility. Once they have brought forth a child into this world, they should give that child the best. The best has been proved to be breast milk until such a time that they are old enough to take formula milk. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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