Phillipines Implements Buses with Separate Seating for Women

Breastfeeding women, that is.

This is in order to counter the Phillipines' abysmal breastfeeding rates.

Davao buses now breastfeeding-friendly

By Mai Gevera

Davao City (7 August) -- About 50 units of Metro Shuttle buses servicing the different cities in the region now have reserved seats for breastfeeding mothers.

. . . World Health Organization representative Dr. Howard Sobel joined the launching of the first-ever breastfeeding-friendly bus as well as the inauguration of the breastfeeding room stationed in the Davao City Overland Transport Terminal (DCOTT).

. . . He cited that about 82,000 Filipino children before their fifth birthday and about 16,000 die because of sub-optimal feeding habits.[I wrote the webmaster to find out the missing words.]

"Our country ranks worst among the 56 countries that were studied on their breastfeeding mothers," he said.

The study showed that only 16 percent of the 4 months old in the country are breastfed while about 15 percent have never even tasted a drop of breast milk.

An 85% initiation dropping to 16% at age four months? I wonder if separate seating will make a difference.