I was excited about our trip to Bojonegoro and seeing how this place runs it’s maternal and child health program. The road was good, part of the trip was on a toll road. The
road after the toll road was quaint – it seemed like we were driving
through small towns along the way, each had a beautiful mosque adorning
the road side, most under construction of some sort. The
other side of the road had a train track where several trains passed
us, passengers hanging out of the doors probably trying to get a
reprieve from the stifling heat inside.
The first woman I saw feeding her child with a bottle. She is unable to breastfeed. Quite the opposite of the woman above, this woman is overfeeding her baby to the point of obesity. This baby was only 3 months old and his mother had a hard time carrying him around. She reported that she was only feeding him breastmilk.
In the end, we wound up finding our women, though only 20 of them. Most of them had delivered at the Polindes, though there were a few home births mixed in there. We visited a variety of puskesmas, polindes and private midwives clinics. There was definitely an energy about the women in Bojonegoro.
They all seemed to have really good reasons for going to facilities, which means that someone is doing their job educating the women about the need to deliver in a facility. The women we found that delivered at home did so either because they didn't have money and didn't know about jampersal (the government policy to pay for births at facilities) or didn't make it to a facility in time.
The first woman I saw feeding her child with a bottle. She is unable to breastfeed. Quite the opposite of the woman above, this woman is overfeeding her baby to the point of obesity. This baby was only 3 months old and his mother had a hard time carrying him around. She reported that she was only feeding him breastmilk.
In the end, we wound up finding our women, though only 20 of them. Most of them had delivered at the Polindes, though there were a few home births mixed in there. We visited a variety of puskesmas, polindes and private midwives clinics. There was definitely an energy about the women in Bojonegoro.
They all seemed to have really good reasons for going to facilities, which means that someone is doing their job educating the women about the need to deliver in a facility. The women we found that delivered at home did so either because they didn't have money and didn't know about jampersal (the government policy to pay for births at facilities) or didn't make it to a facility in time.
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