Um, as far as I know the moms don't do this once the children are up and
walking well, and almost all babies in Mali are "toilet trained" by about 18
months (they pee wherever they want, eventually learn to use the latrine;
they are put on small plastic pots to poop in the morning, and sit there
until til they poop, and move on to using the latrine at about 2 years of
age).
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