Sentences with phrase «other cultures breastfeed»

I especially enjoy reading about the history of breastfeeding and how other cultures breastfeed their children.

And I think if everyone is armed with those facts we would see a total different picture because if you go to some other culture breastfeeding is the norm, where you can sit on the beach topless and your toddler comes up and nurse it's no big deal.

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That's what I'm saying too - I think that the real problems that have lead us so far away from breastfeeding are less to do with formula companies and more to do with the completely screwed up North American birth culture where under - informed medical staff are the ones at the steering wheel and we have succumbed to the over-sexualization of breasts and other non-female-friendly cultural ideas that have made breastfeeding «gross», «offensive» or «unnecessary».

Share your hard - earned knowledge, help other parents, and create a stronger breastfeeding culture.

Come connect with other nursing mothers, share your stories and questions, find support and help create a breastfeeding culture.

Other cultures recognize breastfeeding is beneficial to an age that our culture does not.

The normal act of breastfeeding in its most basic form may not be very different between cultures, however all those other factors impact on breastfeeding outcomes.

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I completely see that other people's world views are influenced by their cultures and societies etc., but that does not take away from the fact that breastfeeding is the normal way to feed babies.

In some cultures, breastfeeding an adoptive child creates milk kinship that built community bonds across class and other hierarchal bonds.

In other words: Breastfeeding in our culture is deemed a private bodily function when — for many reasons, all having to do with infant and maternal health — it should be a public one.

While people from other cultures often find this controversy inexplicable, the reasons for the controversy are obvious to Americans — even those of us who fully support breastfeeding in public.

In addition, studies done in other cultures about the effects on children of nighttime child - rearing practices have shown that attachment object use was less common when children slept in the same bed or in the same room as their mothers and were breastfed longer (Gaddini & Gaddini, 1970; Hong & Townes, 1976; Litt, 1981).

And it sounds like just in other cultures where they are breastfeeding in public all the time and they are doing extended breastfeeding and breastfeeding is not as sexualized as it is in the West and that's kind of really where we need to go with this.

Strategic Plan Focus for July — Goals 2, 3, and 4 World BF Month is the perfect opportunity to promote a culture supportive and accepting of breastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBMbreastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBMbreastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBMBreastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBM) activities!

I've been criticized for promoting a culture in which working moms are expected to be «supermoms» when so much is already demanded of them, for not paying attention to my babies while breastfeeding, for appearing to pass judgment on Marina Abramovic, among other things.

But you also can look it up La Leche League International has lots of information about breastfeeding in different cultures because they're all over the world and there's an amazing projects online in general whether it be the La Leche Group or other online groups where women are sharing their breastfeeding experiences from a global perspective.

In further investigating how our culture handles breastfeeding, though, I was surprised in the other direction this time.

At some point, doctors and other healthcare professionals in the American culture need to realize that breastfeeding is not a medical decision.

And maybe that's OK, because there are other research questions that are perhaps more pressing, but having some evidence for benefit might help normalize extended breastfeeding in our culture should women choose to continue nursing.

In so many other cultures, breastfeeding toddlers is common and not at all taboo (like it seems to be here in the US).

In its emphasis on early independence, Western culture differs from many other cultures, and this is reflected in the looks and comments that parents receive when their child is still breastfeeding or using a binky beyond the age of what we typically see.