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Aisha Modu's daughter died just 40 days after giving birth herself in Nigeria
As Aisha cared for a newborn baby, the child's father was snatched by insurgents
She was forced to flee on foot with the baby in her arms, no food and no money
She found a clinic and now the grandmother is breastfeeding her grandchild

Nigerian grandmother kept her starving grandchild alive by breastfeeding while on the run from deadly insurgents.

Aisha Modu's daughter died a few months ago when her baby was just 40 days old.

Aisha, thought to be in her 50s, faced months of hell after her grandchild's father was abducted by insurgents, forcing her to flee on foot with the baby in her arms.
Aisha Modu, thought to be in her 50s, has been breastfeeding her granddaughter to keep her alive after they fled insurgents
Aisha Modu, thought to be in her 50s, has been breastfeeding her granddaughter to keep her alive after they fled insurgents

Aisha, who is now at a Save the Children clinic in north-east Nigeria, said: 'I was sleeping at the time but a neighbor woke me and told me to take what I could and run.

'The bullets were the size of my finger and they were firing them everywhere.

'I am old so I tried to run with a group of men but we were captured by the insurgents. They slaughtered one of the men in front of me.'

When Aisha first arrived the little girl was less than 2 kilos, dangerously underweight for a three-month-old child
When Aisha first arrived the little girl was less than 2 kilos, dangerously underweight for a three-month-old child

Aisha had no food or money, so did the only thing she could to keep the little girl alive, and breastfed her.

No milk was produced straight away as it is decades since Aisha had a child, and the baby's weight plummeted to about 4lbs (1.9kg).

Eventually Aisha managed to get to charity staff with her three-month-old and was referred to a clinic where she is being helped by Dr Isaac Bot.

Dr Bot said: 'Aisha came in with her granddaughter and was very anxious about where she was. Being from such a remote part of the country she was not familiar with hospitals.

'She was jittery about the environment and was confused and apprehensive.

'I asked if she was getting support from anywhere else and she said she had nobody. She broke down and cried when she told us this. It was very emotional.'

Staff helped her to cope and managed to help her breastfeed the infant.

Dr Bot added: 'The milk was just beginning to flow but it was not sufficient.

'We started a process called Supplementary Suckling Technique where we put a little tube into the baby's mouth beside the nipple and so when the baby suckles it is rewarded with milk. This suckling also sends a message to Aisha's brain to stimulate milk production.'
Thanks to the help of a doctor from the Save the Children clinic in Nigeria, the little girl is much healthier
Thanks to the help of a doctor from the Save the Children clinic in Nigeria, the little girl is much healthier
The grandmother faced tragedy when she lost her only daughter and then was forced to flee when the little girl's father was captured by insurgents
The grandmother faced tragedy when she lost her only daughter and then was forced to flee when the little girl's father was captured by insurgents

Save the Children says there are many women in remote villages in Nigeria who breastfeed other women's babies because of the high numbers of mothers who die.

The doctor said: 'Maternal mortality is quite high so we often see sisters suckling the children of their deceased sisters.

'These support systems are very important. Any woman can breastfeed even if she has never had a child or hasn't breastfed in many years as long as she regularly puts the baby to the breast. It's free and anyone can do it.'

According to Save the Children, breastfeeding is the single most effective intervention to save children's lives and could prevent 13 per cent of all under-five deaths if practiced properly.
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How do i post on NL

Meaning what??

We would fry egg for them

Make these people let us rest now.

Is ok ooooo

Jimoh Ibrahim graduated from OAU and made money from OYEL TAX and later proceed to Harvard for fame and prestige. Get your fact right

Please, stop promoting lies. God does not speak with anybody through any meas today.

Read Heb 1:1,2. You will see that the last time God spoke with man was through Jesus.

Anything outside that is self deception that make individual to open religious centres, saying that God call them.

The big answer you get is NO. The idea that humans don't die after death was promoted by Satan and later find its way to Christianity.

The teaching of an immortal soul was popular among ancient people such as Egyptians, Assyrians. It was Socrates and Aristotle that developed the

teaching of an immortal soul to acceptable teaching among the elite.

It was chrisianised by the Romans---Constantin.

The reason is that you people lie on TV and want people to believe you.

I will only believe in the miracle of Chris if he could heal the Mad woman staying permanently close to his church.

Don't ask me how. His church is right there in my neighborhood.

Somebody's baby daddy and somebody's baby mama. Chai

Big fish feeds on small fish since inception of the earth

we don hear

Ayam not indomie generation

FTC I made it to the front page.

So happy

Don't waste prayer. The man is "hale hearty and chatty". So what is the need for prayer?
He is only on vacation in London. Sorry I thought he is awaiting test results.

There used to be Agidingbi house in Benin.
I want clarification on it, pls.

Nothing to say for now

Baaad.

Good God!!

Not again!!!

Talk later

coool
FTC

I Thought they came from Libya and Senegal
.... mean Sudan....

MAKE I TALK

He also said reporters "shouldn't be allowed" to use unnamed sources
If you try that in Nigeria, you have killed journalism in Nigeria.
What we hear every time is "a source from...., a senior.... that don;t want to be named etc

Good morning all
Please how do I post on Nairaland.
Kindly reply

This is serious.