Udaipur: After giving birth to her second child, a boy, 27-year-old Preeti Gameti wasn’t sure whether she was happy or worried. An anaemic, Gameti had lost a lot of blood during labour and was too weak to breastfeed the newborn. As the infant’s health deteriorated due to unavailability of his mother’s milk, Gameti’s hopes of keeping her son alive faded. Realising that the baby could soon breath his last, a local doctor suggested that the newborn be fed mother’s milk, but not necessarily his own.

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