The Daily Telegraph reports today how nursing mothers in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are being offered a service whereby they can have their breastmilk couriered to their baby whilst they are at work. Grandmothers/ carers waiting at home caring for the infants can then feed the babies with fresh mother’s milk, rather than resort to powdered milk that many, in Indonesia, feel is inferior and less healthy.
The service – which charges just £2.20 to £3 for each delivery – was set up in 2010 by Fikri Nauval, 40, who runs a cargo and document shipping business. He was inspired by his own wife who used his couriers to send her breast milk when she had to return to work.
Febby Kemala Dewi, 29, is one of the growing band of young mothers who grasped the opportunity to use Mr Nauval’s service.
The IT consultant found it difficult to pump enough milk for the whole day before she left for work in the mornings after she had to return to her central Jakarta office when her three months’ maternity was up.
Now she can pump the milk and send it home at lunchtime, which her mother uses to feed eight-month-old Ashalina Putri when the courier makes his delivery.
“I have to work, but at the same time I can feed my baby,” said Mrs Dewi.
I wonder if that will take off here…?
