Sentences with phrase «women breastfeed their children»

Why anyone would be offended or «disgusted» at the sight of a woman breastfeeding a child in public is beyond me.

it would not bother me a bit if a woman breastfed her child next to me in a restaurant.

Created in 1991 by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Initiative was built around 10 steps designed to improve the odds of women breastfeeding their children.

Those of us who don't will not be swayed by a picture of a woman breastfeeding her child in public.

The Moche artisans of Peru (1 — 800 A.D.) represented women breastfeeding their children in ceramic vessels.

In many places around the world, women breastfeed their children for over two years.

Laws § 41.181, § 67.1 aa and § 117.4 i et seq. (1994) state that public nudity laws do not apply to a woman breastfeeding a child.

The law clarifies that lewd conduct, lewd touching, immoral conduct, indecent conduct, and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breastfeeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be.

14 V.I.C. § 1022 specifies that a woman breastfeeding a child in any public or private location where the woman's presence is otherwise authorized does not under any circumstance constitute obscene or indecent conduct.

§ 29.25.080 and § 01.10.060 (1998) prohibit a municipality from enacting an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a woman breastfeeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be.

It is recommended that a woman breastfeed her child for at least 6 months, up to a year; this is to provide optimal immune support, vitamins, cognitive development, and nurture bonding.

Not exact matches

If a woman is breastfeeding a child when its old enough to eat food, there is a whole other set of problems at play.

Children who see a woman breastfeeding aren't going to be harmed.

Breastfeed a child is not flaunting nudity, LoA, and it is a function that God intended when He created woman.

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.

That is one reason why I actively support women (and by extension, their partners and families) who want to breastfeed and parent their children in an «attached» way.

I agree with Meagan, because I read someplace that women with higher IQ are breastfeeding more than others so it might also be related with not neglecting their children and being more concerned for their welfare.

So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing in public, or feeling weird about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)

Often women with low supply are let down by the breastfeeding community because they rely on the idea that if your child does not have enough milk it is because you are not working hard enough.

Studies show that the longer a woman breastfeeds the more she reduces the risk of many illnesses to her child (such as childhood cancers) and risk of illness to herself (lower risk of breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer).

Of course, it's impossible to prepare for every possible scenario, but if a woman knows in advance that breastfeeding jaundice is a normal occurrence and isn't always a cause for concern, then perhaps she can make better informed choices with regard to her child's care.

How are women who are told that they must breastfeed and it is best for their child ever supposed to «win» in this kind of a climate?

Women who exclusively breastfeed are also more likely to be stay at home mothers whose children get to avoid daycare and all the germs that come with it so those kids may tend to have less infections earlier in life.

Obviously, women who are committed to breastfeeding their babies come hell or high water are probably just as committed to other aspects of their children's lives which may explain some of the benefits seen in SOME studies.

And to add to that, when a woman has tried her damndest to breastfeed, and it just did not work out, please be sure and tell her that she is NOT a bad mother and her child WILL be just fine and not damaged for life.

A woman who breastfeeds past age 6 months and is financially secure might be more inclined, as a majority, to have multiple (3 +) children.

From my own experience, with Child 1 I couldn't pump nearly enough milk so we ended up buying lots of formula anyway (between that, the cost of the pump and the hands - free bras, the cost of the journey to get his tongue tie snipped, and the extra maternity leave I took, I may well be one of the few women to have made an overall loss from breastfeeding).

I have a few qualms about his hunch that «The key difference is likely to come down to the demands of breastfeeding following the birth of a child — an activity that's energy - intensive, time - consuming, and quite difficult to integrate with paid work, at least as work is currently structured» — because that assumes that all women who want a high status - high income partner plan to have children.

But... but... but... I don't want other women to give up on breastfeeding because they believe something to be true that really isn't true and I don't want you to be robbed of the opportunity to nurse your future children (if you want to) because you believe something that really isn't true.

And because many women have never seen another woman breastfeeding before they attempt to breastfeed their child, according to Suzie, there's no wonder that women have unrealistic expectations, become overwhelmed, and simply give up breastfeeding altogether.

«Despite the best of intentions, women are bombarded with messages that lead them to believe if they stray from breastfeeding they are potentially harming their newborn child....

Women who live in these communities are not questioned about «still» breastfeeding their children.

Yes, a breastfeeding mother can go sit in her car, but a woman shouldn't have to hide away in her car because she needs to feed her hungry child.

Authorities at the Department of Children and Family Services took the boy from the 32 - year - old woman's home after a baby - sitter called an abuse hot line and the child subsequently told investigators that he no longer wanted to breastfeed, they said.

She recounts that several of her WIC counselors told her that «they «knew» lots of women who had been raped who breastfed,» and suggested that since she had obviously had sex to conceive a child since being attacked, she was sufficiently healed to nurse that child.

Most American mothers wean their babies well before a year; Some women wean out of necessity, due to inability to breastfeed or technical issues related to nursing; Some children wean themselves, which causes some mothers elation and others, absolute sorrow.

Like many women in their first pregnancy, I started to read lots about what would be best for my child, and I was astonished how often I came across breastfeeding.

The Equalities Act 2010 in the UK creates a clear protection for breastfeeding women, in that service providers (including all public services, as well as restaurants and cafés) can not refuse to provide an equal service to a breastfeeding woman, and this applies no matter what the age of the child.

There are many decisions a pregnant woman makes about the birth of her child, yet it is the hospital she chooses that can directly impact her breastfeeding relationship.

Many women mistakenly believe that they can not conceive if they are breastfeeding a child.

A study found that women who breastfed their children reduced their risk of developing postpartum depression, which is a major win, especially since anyone going through PPD might find it difficult to breastfeed their child.

If breastfeeding is really something you want to shield your kids from seeing that is YOUR problem and If seeing a woman breastfeeding her five year old is not appealing to YOU that is YOUR problem, it is not the mother who simply wants to nurse her child's problem, nor should it be her concern either.

While breast milk is known to offer an array of benefits to infants, including supplying vital nutrients, several recent studies have revealed that women who choose breastfeeding after pregnancy may be giving their children the gift of more than just a steady food source.

The authors of The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning say women who have not breastfed are four times more likely to develop osteoporosis later in life.

If all the mothers participating in the Women Infant Child program would breastfeed instead of buying formula for one month, the savings would be considerable.

Most recently, there was a study (Ayrim 2014), in Turkey: 165 women with singleton pregnancies who were breastfeeding the previous child.

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.

If you are considering breastfeeding during pregnancy, or advising a woman who is, it's ideal to have an obstetrician or midwife who can consider the genuine medical research on safety, as well as the overwhelming research on the continued benefit of long term nursing to the older child.

Women who had an amazing experience breastfeeding their first child, may find it difficult to nurse with their second child.

The recognition that many women forgo the option of breastfeeding their child, despite the health and economic implications of using formula.