Limitations
The limitations of this analysis are chiefly related to the targeted questions of FGDs not being focussed on concealment and with this theme arising naturally. Notably absent in FGD participants’ reasons for concealing are prohibitions on postpartum sexual relations, which are well-documented in Gambia and SSA more broadly, with mothers who become pregnant during the breastfeeding period may seek to conceal their new pregnancies while they rapidly wean the breastfeeding child [