Ethiopia Combating Stunting in Children in Aleta-Wondo Woreda town of the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia
BY Mekonnen Teshome Adugna Mitiku had never realized the advantage of giving colostrum to her children within an hour of their birth and also did not exclusively feed her breast in the six months after their birth, contrary to doctors’ advice to help them physically and mentally develope. Adugna (Right) and her daughter Meron embracing her ten-month old son Rather Adugna, a resident in 04 Dela Kebele of the Aleta-Wondo Woreda town of the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia, spilled out the colostrum before feeding breast her daughters as she thought it was something unclean and unpleasant for them to take against the teaching of health professionals. She also gave her babies Hamessa, juice of a “medicinal” plant that usually affects newborn babies’ kidney, with in few hours of their birth thinking that it would make the newly born babies strong and healthy according to the tradition of her society. She also didn’t start complementary food when they get six months old