Breastfeed Mother

The immediate and long-term benefits of breastfeeding have been demonstrated. Mothers are encouraged to begin breastfeeding immediately after delivery, however mothers choosing to breastfeed find numerous challenges once returning to work. There are not appropriate accommodations to support nursing mothers in the workplace. Although there are laws in place to support accommodations in the workplace these laws are not enforced and therefore it is virtually impossible for mothers to continue to breastfeed as a result of the significant barriers they face to effectively find suitable accommodations in the workplace. There needs to be a standard for enforcing these policies if the goal is to move toward encouraging all mothers to breastfeed throughout the first six months of life.

There is no author because it is a government website but it is still a credible source. This article informs citizens about the laws regarding breastfeeding in a public place as well as at places of employment. Many women are unaware of their rights and the laws that protect breastfeeding as this article serves as a good point of reference. This article supports my thesis as it brings to light that the government fully supports a women’s right to breastfeed and even protects it and provides legal ground for a mother to stand on when she is questioned in public or at

“Breast feeding rates in developed countries such as the UK, Australia and the US are typically lower than World Health Organisation goals” Parkinson (2010) 3. From a study carried out by Queensland university stressed the importance of not only the delivery of literature on how effective breastfeeding is for your babies health but that what was also needed to increase the number of breast feeders was to give personal support and explains social and environmental benefits also. When they looked at the UK in particular, Parkinson (2010) 3 stated “women already understood that breastfeeding was good for their baby, and what they needed were the tools to help them to breastfeed longer. From this it is clear that although effective and sufficient information around the benefits of the child is being addressed, there is no sufficient information or skills being given direct to the parents in order for them to carry this out for any length of time. Another piece of research was carried out in 2010 on ways to change the paradigm of breastfeeding, from encouraging promotion of breast feeding within the employment setting.

The benefits of breastfeeding outweighs not breastfeeding an infant (Rollins et al., 2016). It is reported that an annual amount of 302 billion dollars is lost as a result of mothers not breastfeeding their babies (Rollins et al., 2016). In addition, refraining from breastfeeding has been linked to lower intelligence in the infant (Rollins et al., 2016). Furthermore, breast milk substitutes made 44.8 billion United States dollars in global sales in 2014 (Rollins et al., 2016). Lastly, it has been reported that the United States would save thirteen billion dollars each year from reduced health care costs if ninety percent of women exclusively breastfed their babies for six months (Radzyminiski & Callister, 2015).

My reactions to Chapter 6 is that Breastfeeding is more beneficial to the infant than formulas. I support Breastfeeding because breastfed babies are likely to have fewer infections and hospitalizations than formula-fed infants. Formulas are more likely to cause health problems for the child because they don’t have antibiotics. This is something that the company Nestle didn’t mention in their advertisement. If an infant is fed formulas, they can suffer from nutritional deficiencies and constipation due to a foreign content such as cow milk. It seems more natural for a mother to feed the child from her own body because her child was in the womb for 9 months. I don’t see what’s wrong with a mother breastfeeding? The infant is receiving nutrients

Breastfeeding has sometimes been viewed as a disturbing public exposure by a lot of people. Most of them chose to ignore the benefits of breastfeeding your child. The article of Lisa Flam is an example of what people think about breastfeeding. It discusses a picture of a young African woman nurturing her child in front of everyone during a graduation ceremony. Despite the fact that people think is wrong to breastfeed your child in public, it is legal in 49 states in the United States. Another perspective of looking at this article is the empowerment of encouraging African women to breastfeed their children because they are the groups that breastfeed their children the least in the United States.

Various researches exists in the health care premises to determine the best policies that will promote the utilization of resources within healthcare. However, some research work that utilizes social scientific methods fails to focus on exploring maternal ambiguity and ambivalence. Rather, the paradigm informing the majority research about infants feeding practices remains a public health perspective. From that perspective, many studies tend to explore why women do not initiate breastfeeding. Again, it suggests some options why women do not breastfeed for the recommended period. Thus, it is imperative to recommend the appropriate interventions to change maternal behaviour. The work remains the most accurately considered advocacy research as its purposes help the overall public in some ways. It gives additional weight to arguments for devoting more governmental resources to breastfeeding promotion. A small number of studies have utilized social sciences methods to generate valuable insights about the tension between policy and maternal practices and experience.

Breastfeeding may be slightly uncomfortable in the early days, but it should never be a painful experience. If you are experiencing pain that doesn't go away with a correct latch and isn't due to plugged ducts, you could have thrush. Thrush is a common fungal infection that affects breastfeeding moms and infants.

This culture of no compassion extends beyond broad social issues. It seems that as a society, we've grown less tolerant and patient with one another. Breast-feeding mothers are kicked out of public parks for offending some uptight prude. Mothers face scathing wrath or banishment if dealing with a crying child. Even children themselves have become an offensive thing and the target of intolerance, with some businesses or communities banishing them or segregating families with kids apart from other customers. You could probably recite your own stories of rudeness or intolerance from

Breastfeeding is a form of a mother feeding her child from her breasts. When women decide to breastfeed their children in public they tend to be looked at with disgust. When their only intentions are to give their infants food and nutrients. Sadly many view it to be inappropriate and considered sexual for a woman's breast to be about of their shirt to feed their child. Women should be allowed to breastfeed in public no matter what anyone else says.

Deciding whether to continue breastfeeding during a pregnancy is an individual choice. Breastfeeding during pregnancy is generally not risky. Women who breastfeed while they are pregnant often experience nipple or breast pain, decreased milk supply, and fatigue. Your nursing child may naturally stop breastfeeding (wean) during your pregnancy.

Becoming a mother is an amazing life event. Woman instinctively want to protect and provide for others but as mothers, they up their game because that is their precious little human they created and grew for 9 months in their bodies. Mothers to be carefully choose and plan out every little detail over the next 9 months. Expecting mothers give up some vices like coffee, caffeine, and alcohol. They pick up new healthier eating habits and baby proof the house. Buy the safest crib and car seats. Read all the reviews on which diapers are best quality. All because they want the best for their precious little bundle of joy. How they choose to feed the baby is no different. While breastfeeding can be time consuming; the minimal cost, ease of convenience and added health benefits are why breastfeeding is the best choice for mom and baby.

So, you use the crutch when you need to, but when you are just going to be sitting down and you don’t need the crutch, the same is for breastfeeding, you an breastfeed in the evenings, you can breastfeed at night, you can breastfeed on weekends. To try and make it more acceptable to them, especially if those are the barriers and they won’t even try. Usually the baby will win them over eventually.

This commodification targets mainly heterosexual men instilling within them that this protuberance, mammary gland or bulge in the female body, when seen should be responded with sexual arousal. Due to the sexual objectification of women bodies breastfeeding in public was considered inappropriate for public consumption and thus should be done in the private quarters of the home. Facing these issues mothers began to justify breastfeeding in public as medical clearance. This medical clearance resulted in both the health system and the government performing advanced test resulting in resurrecting the breast milk as the best thing for the child. The breast is then seen as an object of nutrition removing its sexuality however it is still being objectified. Though this form has led to the formation of three categories of law that overall protect the mother’s right to breastfeed in public. However these laws were not well known by the public resulting in mother’s being harassed by bystanders and consequently leading to their removal from the public eye. As a result mothers banded together educating society of their rights and enforcing it by having on hand exerts of the state laws passed prohibiting mothers from being

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