Breastfeeding: India

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Breastfeeding a child

From the archives of The Times of India 2007, 2009

‘Mother has right to breastfeed her child’

The Gujarat High Court has ordered Ahmedabad Civil Hospital to ensure that a woman breastfeeds her newborn girl, who was weaned away from her mother by her parents because she was a lovechild. When the court was told that the parents had forced the separation of the mother and child because they disapproved of her relationship with the child’s father, the court asked the hospital staff to take help of woman constables, if needed, to ensure that the parents did not interfere with their daughter’s life. Sarita — her parents claim that she was married — eloped with a Marathi boy, Hitesh, some time last year. Her parents filed a habeas corpus in the Gujarat high court and she was brought to the court by cops on July 27 last year. But she refused to go with her parents. The court told them Sarita was not a minor and was free to live with Hitesh. TNN From the archives of The Times of India 2007, 2009