Setting
The research was conducted at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, a Ministry of Health primary care facility in Nairobi County. With an average of one hundred and twenty deliveries per day, it is Kenya’s largest specialized referral hospital dedicated to maternity and newborn care. The facility mostly serves women from Nairobi and the surrounding counties who are low and middle-income earners.
The first HMB in Eastern Africa was established at this hospital as a pilot project to support and promote breastfeeding among nursing mothers while at the same time facilitating the supply of safe DHM to at-risk newborns without access to mother’s milk.