Sapele’s Female Druggies and their Babies
Sapele’s Female Druggies and their Babies
Imagine a baby just a few days or old. He or she has been crying for food endlessly, but nothing is on offer. There is no money for baby food, so the mother has to feed the child with her breast’s milk. However, the delay that kept the baby hungry was because she was taking time to inject, swallow, or smoke drugs. The baby’s nourishment from the mother’s breast may hold with varying concentrations of drugs. That is the baby’s meal and survival.
We are not even considering how well-fed the mother is, the child’s immunity, health and treatment if it falls ill, the environment the mother and child lives, hopes of a better life and so forth. (more…)