I've done around 15 interviews with women (I may discard some due to low quality of responses... too much outsider input etc), and 5 with doctors and others working in the healthcare system.
The picture that's been painted makes sense. Too much sense actually. I'm quite suspicious of it, and wonder whether I've been given a picture of 'cultural norms'. However, I've used various techniques (including lots of simple observation, rephrasing of questions -including in the negative) and seem to have some answers that most of the participants, and especially the translators, think is OBVIOUS.
That's all very well, but I haven't found it published in the literature... and more importantly, when I put these findings to people working in the health service - they seem impressed. They seem to feel that there might be some techniques for improving nutrition of pregnant women coming out.
Is it possible?
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Of course it's possible! There's a massive gap between what we know works, and how we can make it work. Just because the doctors may know that Vit A supplements can help those with Vit A deficiency doesn't mean that giving supplements to babies will solve their problem.
It's obvious to us, but babies won't take pills all by themselves. They need mothers. It's obvious that all the pieces in the jigsaw puzzle make a picture, but we need to know how to put the pieces together, in the right order.
As with everything else, we need to know details that we think we don't know, before all the pieces in the puzzle fit together.
Good work Bhopsy!
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