Mac Otani’s heartbreaking breastfeeding challenge with ailing wife

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“Men rarely want to be involved in discussions surrounding #breastfeeding. Many of us believe this topic is for women alone. Well, during this #worldbreastfeedingweek I'll share my experience with our new baby and what I've learnt during this eye-opening journey.” Mac Otani, a media practitioner, begins his Twitter thread sharing how, alongside his ailing wife, they ensured their little baby girl didn’t live minus the much needed breast milk while her mother was hospitalized.

Other than forming part of a sustainable food system, breastfeeding gives every child the best start in life by delivering health nutritional and emotional benefits to both the mother and child. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that despite breastfeeding being a natural process, it is hardly easy and mothers always require support to get started and to sustain breastfeeding. For Otani, he did not only have to be there and support his wife and mother of his child but he had to also look after the little one and ensure she at least still had access to her only food.