Stories and material sent in from Bangladesh
By Audrey Merriam
As a future Ob-Gyn, I spent a month in Dhaka, Bangladesh doing research on first-hour breastfeeding–the act of putting the infant to the breast within the first hour of life. The ingestion of much if any milk–considered colostrum or first-milk at this point–is not even considered the most important part of...
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By Tara Song
At 4:00pm, I show up for my first day at the Special Care Unit of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) to observe afternoon rounds.
The room is quiet, except for an occasional burst of crying from one of the tiny patients. The SCU currently houses about ten infant patients...
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