Husbands should abstain from their breastfeeding wives for six months – medical practitioner
Husbands
should not only make their wives comfortable when they are
breastfeeding their new born babies but should also abstain from
incessant love making, a medical practitioner has said. The director of
public health in Cross River State, Dr Iwara Iwara, said in Calabar
yesterday while speaking during a one-day media round table to
consolidate on the gains of the World Breastfeeding Week.
He said
husbands have usually had all the time with their wives before the
delivery of the new born but as soon as the babies come in they must be
given total and adequate attention, care and steady breastfeeding.
Dr
Iwara who advocated paternity leave for men to enable them assist to
their lactating wives also called for extension of maternity leave to
six months.