We concluded the first Essential Care for Small Babies course today. Some babies are too small or weak to nurse, in which case it is recommended for the mother to express breast milk and then feed the baby with a cup. We used the MamaBreast model for the participants to learn how to express milk into a cup. If the baby is very small and unable to tolerate even cup feedings, a nasogastric tube can be placed, and then the milk can be given to the baby through a syringe.
Latter-day Saint Charities is partnering in this training here in Lubumbashi with USAID Prosani, a U.S. Government project that “seeks to achieve sustainable improvements in the health of the Congolese people by building the capacity of health institutions and communities to deliver quality integrated services.” Prosani operates in 9 of the 26 provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have participants from all nine of these provinces in our course in addition to one other province.
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