Bangladesh: new breastfeeding initiative helps garment workers

For garment workers with newborns or infants at home - as for women in many other professions - maternity leave or child care facilities at work are but a distant dream. Yet, the benefits of breastfeeding are clinically proven: breastfed babies acquire good immunity and generally develop faster than their non-breastfed or sporadically breastfed peers. So what's a new mother to do who cannot afford to lose her job and who has to spend 10-12 hours a day or more away from home and her baby?