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A physician, Dr. Agnes Nwoke, says that the cultural practice of consuming palm wine or pap by nursing mothers does not enhance the flow of breast milk.on Saturday in Awka on the sideline of the commemoration of 2021 World Breastfeeding Week.
The theme for this year’s World Breastfeeding Week is “Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility”. The physician said there was the need to demystify the myth about the effect of palm wine or pap on breastfeeding.“It is not the amount of fluid taken via pap or palm wine, it is the intensity of suckling and time of suckling that help the nursing mother to produce more milk.“Also mothers should breast feed more at night because the hormone called prolactin functions more at night as it contributes to high flow of breast milk,” she said.
Nwoke said that palm wine contained alcohol on the average up to six per cent, saying it might have sedative effects which can make mothers and even the babies to sleep.
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