The WHO charts more accurately reflect how
breastfed children grow.
As
breastfed children grow they are less likely to suffer diabetes, obesity, and asthma.
So many articles and peer - reviewed articles have proven that
a breastfed child grows up to be much more in control of their own emotions.
As
your breastfed child grows and begins to eat solid foods, experts believe that he will more readily accept the foods that you have already exposed him to through your breast milk.
Not exact matches
But I do know that my grandfather once told me that when he was
growing up around the 20s and 30s, it was natural for mothers to
breastfeed their
children in church.
I firmly believe that if more boys witnessed their mothers / women in the community
breastfeeding their siblings /
children, they wouldn't have this issue when they
grew up.
To the best of our ability, their father and I raised our
children to see both parents working in the home and without as normal, and when they
grew up, our daughters, our only
children, had no second thoughts about giving time to their careers, nor to the advantages of
breastfeeding and the importance of providing healthy, whole foods to their families.
When we
breastfeed and watch our
children thrive and
grow on the milk our bodies made we are the ones who feel that these formula companies are trying everything possible for us to buy their products.
If the
child is not neglected and
growing and healthy (which the vast majority of
breastfed and formula fed
children are), why do you care?
It's normal to feel a little sad when
breastfeeding is finished, but remember that there are always new and exciting ways for you and your
child to spend time together as he or she
grows up.
As I had more
children, and my career unfolded, I pursued various avenues of research related to
breastfeeding and weaning, and the impact of La Leche League has only
grown.
Is your
child very sick all of the time (because breastmilk is best for that), is your
child not
growing at the rate expected (then there are tests which need to be done that have nothing to do with
breastfeeding), does your
child have some developmental issues that need to be looked at (again which will have nothing to do with the fact that they are
breastfeeding or not).
Although you might feel a little bit sad at first to know that your
child is
growing up and will one day no longer be
breastfeeding regularly, don't worry.
I will strive for my daughter to
grow up in a society where
breastfeeding is perceived as the norm, where women
breastfeeding in public aren't picked out as ostentatious, where feeding a
child the way nature intended isn't only discussed in schools as part of sex education.
Children who
grow up never seeing
breastfeeding at home and only seeing bottle - feeding on TV or in their books are surely less likely to want to
breastfeed their own babies when the time comes.
Provided that you begin to add complementary foods to your
child's diet as she
grows,
breastfeeding can continue for 2 years, 3 years, or even longer.
Feel sorry for her
child, obviously if its a girl she will give her a very hard time when she
grows up and tries to
breastfeed.
Breastfeeding is still recommended and beneficial to your
child at this age, but as your
child gets older, breast milk alone will no longer be enough to provide him with all the nutrition that his body requires as he
grows.
The more we
breastfeed in public and the more we question the insanity and the more we confront the dysfunction of society the better chance we have of our
children and grandchildren
growing up in a saner world.
In many societies,
children grow up seeing their moms and aunts and friends
breastfeed, and the knowledge and awareness about how to breast feed is naturally passed down from generation to generation.
Many presume that a
child won't
grow out of
breastfeeding unless he is forced.
Breastfeeding while pregnant can be a joyful experience that connects you to your
child at the same time you have a new life
growing inside you.
You may decide that you'll exclusively pump before you have your
child, or you may
breastfeed for a while then move on to exclusive pumping as your
child grows.
Also, when
breastfeeding during pregnancy, you and your
child will have to adapt to the
growing belly and find new convenient positions for sucking.
Past research has suggested babies who are
breastfed are less likely to
grow up to be obese
children.
And, more importantly, the
breastfeeding relationship provides
growing children with emotional and psychological benefits, as well.
Its such a shame that because if our culture ppl allow themselves to believe that
breastfeeding after 1 is taboo or causes the
children to HV issues
growing up but as a mother I know that BF my son has made him a confident healthy toddler.
As
children outgrow the practices of AP such as
breastfeeding, babywearing, and co-sleeping, they
grow into other ones.
Not only, as you mentioned, is there a
growing trend of childhood obesity, which
breastfeeding seems to help combat (by teaching satiety and being perfectly balanced for each
child), but like you said —
children come in all sizes.
When my
children grew past the years of
breastfeeding and needing to be attached to me through physical closeness, I learned that I was only at the beginning of the attachment story.
Research does indicate that in situations where
breastfed toddlers have an increased risk of malnutrition, this appears to be due to inadequate complementary feeding or reverse causality (the mother is more likely to continue
breastfeeding a
child who is ill or
growing poorly).
This learning curve is often made steeper by the fact that in today's culture, many of us
grow up never having seen a
child breastfeeding before.
The difference with a country such as China, with little in the way of regulation, can be seen from this graph in the recent Save the
Children report on the need to protect, promote and support
breastfeeding: sales
grow exponentially in China, whereas they remain virtually static in India.
Cindy has been married since 1986 and is the mother of 2
grown children who were
breastfed.
This year the Big Latch On has
grown with 626 locations registered across 23 countries and a new Big Latch On record of 8862
children breastfeeding.
All this means is that if you have small breasts, you may have to
breastfeed more often, especially as your
child grows.
Instead, the reason
breastfed children do better is because they are more likely to
grow up in an environment that supports cognitive development.
Second, pediatricians agree that
breastfed babies are sick less often than bottle - fed babies as they
grow older; therefore, parents will spend less time caring for their sick
children if they have been
breastfed.
genetics & parental involvement «
grows smart babies», not
breastfeeding, nor being attached to your
child 24/7.
I left a comment on another post about
growing up with a mother who did support
breastfeeding and how I have only
breastfed my last one out of 7
children.
[2] Mothers may feel pressure to
breastfeed, but in the developed world
children generally
grow up normally when bottle fed.
Facts for life (2010)-
Breastfeeding - HIV - Safe Motherhood - Newborn Health The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can save and protect the lives of
children and help them
grow and develop to their full potential.
WIN likewise believes that the promotion of
breastfeeding will ensure that Filipino
children will
grow up physically, emotionally and mentally healthy.
Breastfeeding toddlers requires a few adjustments as you
child grows.
Past research has suggested that babies who are
breastfed are less likely to
grow up to be obese
children, but those studies compared mothers who chose whether or not to
breastfeed, so they and their
children could have been different in other important ways, researchers said.
Just because a mother chooses to
breastfeed past a particular age, doesn't mean she doesn't allow or want her
children to
grow up and become independent, self - sufficient human beings.
As
children grow, they leave behind diapers as well as
breastfeeding in an organic and supported way.
Breastfeeding is also likely to lead to improvements in IQ, reduce rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and reduce obesity in young
children, and there is
growing evidence that it confers a number of other health and development benefits on the
child and health benefits on the mother (Renfrew 2012a, Victora 2016).
By the time
children grow up they have been exposed to so many things that may affect health, and it's hard to isolate
breastfeeding.
Because I think prior to having my own
children, I even thought it was kind of a weird thing because I didn't understand it and I wasn't around
breastfeeding moms
growing up, you know?