A few hours after I delivered my daughter three years ago, one of my midwives, Jenny Cox, stopped by to see how we were doing. At that particular moment she found me in tears because I had just been told by a lactation consultant that I would be unable to breastfeed. Despite the fact that she was no longer on duty, Jenny put her purse down and told me that was nonsense.
Last week I attended an event in Dakar entitled the 
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