The wife of the Executive Chairman of Ibadan Northwest Local Government, Alhaja Alirat Folashade Adepoju has welcomed the babies of the year with cash gifts and valuable items, with a charge to mothers to practice exclusive breastfeeding on their babies.
She disclosed this at Ayeye Primary health care center, Ayeye and Oniyanrin Primary Health care centre, Inalende where she visited the babies of the year and presented them with gift items and cash donations.
According to the Chairperson, babies are free gift from God hence, adequate attention and necessary provisions must be made for their growth and uplift. She maintained that breast milk contains natural  nutrients needed for the wellbeing and growth of babies, hence the need to practice the six months exclusive breastfeeding as recommended by medical practitioners.
She enjoined mothers to take the welfare of their children as their priorities regardless of any odds.
While congratulating the mothers of the new born babies, Mrs Adepoju implored them to lay a good foundation for their children and follow all  post natal instructions in taking care of their babies, among which are exclusive breastfeeding for six months, routine immunization for babies and regular intake of balance diet by the nursing mothers. All these according to the chairperson will give the babies and mothers enough immunity against any infections.
In the meantime, the Chairperson has appreciated His Excellency Engr Seyi Makinde and his amiable wife Mrs Olufunke Makinde for their initiatives in organizing programs that would improve the health of mothers and children particularly towards reducing maternal and child deaths from preventable causes. She further appreciated her husband, the Executive Chairman of Ibadan Northwest Local Government, Alh AbdulRahman Olanrewaju Adepoju for his unflinching supports in making her programs for women in the council a reality.
The first baby of the year who was a boy was delivered on January 1,2025 at Ayeye primary Health care center at exactly 12.01am and weighed 2.8kg while the second baby who was also a boy was delivered on January 2, 2025 at Oniyanrin Primary Health care centre, inalende at 2:22am with a body weight of 3.7kg .
The two babies were given gift items and cash donations, while other babies in the wards at Oniyanrin Primary Health centre were given cash gifts by the Chairperson, Mrs Alirat Adepoju.
The mothers of the new year babies Mrs Mariam Lamidi and Mrs Fathia Damilare appreciated the chairperson respectively for putting smiles on their faces in the new year. They prayed to God to replenish her pocket.
In their separate remarks,the matron of Oniyanrin Primary Health care centre Mrs Abimbola Justina and her counterpart from Ayeye Primary Health centre, Mrs Abdulmojeed appreciated the kind gestures of the chairperson towards the family of the new born babies.They urged the mothers to follow all post natal instructions given to them for the benefits of the babies and themselves.
Alhaja Adepoju prays to God to grant mothers and babies good health and the fathers should continue to have the means to support their families.
On the Chairperson’s entourage were the Super for Women Affairs,Mrs Grace Ifeoma, women representatives across the council wards and a Community Inspector Officer Mrs Olosunde.
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