Good question.
You’ll find one woman’s take on it at cbc.ca/nl.
Beware, though, of one figure that is likely off. Both Debbie Cooper and Pam Pardy-Ghent claim that 66% of new mothers breastfeed their babies.
That might be the number who start breastfeeding when the baby is born. Some call it the initiation rate.
The last time your humble e-scribbler checked the local stats the percentage still at it six months after the baby was born was a tiny fraction of that figure.
Try 11 or 12 percent.
And that’s really where the challenge lies. The overwhelming majority of women who start breastfeeding just don’t manage to keep at it.
We need to get to 66% still breastfeeding at six months in. That’s a figure we can reach in this province within two years with just a modest effort by the provincial government. and community groups.
66 at 6 in 2.
Simple.
Practical.
Attainable.
Breastfeeding it’s what your bazongas are for.
- srbp -
3 comments:
If what this site www.whats0nmyfood.org has to say is accurate (and it seems to be a very well researched and documented) then maybe they don't want to breastfeed because they realize human beings are the most polluted mammals ever to walk the earth. Toxins and such are stored in our fat, and if you're breastfeeding then your baby is getting whatever poisons you have in you...only amplified. So unless you can afford real organic food, maybe its best to feed the baby with healthy milk, rather than your own polluted stuff.
Jealous partners may be one of the reasons .
I believe the 100 year old discouragement of women to feed infants their natural food comes from two places. 1) The interests of the "food" industry that produces and markets infant formula; and 2) a bizzare over-sexualization of the human mammary gland. Leaving the free market argument to others, I focus here on the second.
We (current western society) has overwhelmingly linked human breasts to sexuality. Sure, they are secondary sexual characteristics and can be a lot of fun that way, but the primary biological function of the breast is to feed infant mammals (human babies).
Socially, we mistakenly associate contact with the breast as sexual, so society forbids it in public places. Women, socially educated to regard and experience their breasts as sexual, and (for the past 50-100 years) deprived of the experience of seeing our mothers, aunts and sisters nurse their children, many women may feel uncomfortable nursing - a weird and forbidden collision of sex and mothering. And doing it in public - well,we don't have sex in public, either, even under a blanket where others can't really see what's going on ...
Also, god forbid we ENJOY breast feeding! JUST TOO WEIRD.
There's no mystery to why more women don't breastfeed (in private, much less in public) just a lot of layers of socialization and body taboos...
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