Breastfeeding Should Be Allowed

Studies have shown that breastfeeding has numerous benefits for mother and baby, including reducing the risk of common childhood infections. The protective antibodies found in breast milk helps to combat common infections that often leads to missed days from work and translates into lost productivity. In addition, breastfeeding has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of obesity in breastfed children verse children that were not breastfed. Breastfeeding also helps to

Kids are important to life and its existence, it is a natural thing. Our world must face all the moral that comes with it. This involve mothers to feed their babies through breastfeeding at any given time and at any place. The moment woman has a baby, she is faced with many decisions. One of the significant decision is whether to breastfeed her child. Almost everyone will suggest that breastfeeding has many benefits. These benefits are for the breastfeeding mothers, the babies, and for the economy.

Breastfeeding is the prefect way that providing ideal food for healthy growth and development of infants; it is also an important component part of the reproductive process for the health of mothers (WHO, 2002). Breastfeeding has benefits not only for both mother and baby in health and family finance but also for society. The chance of disease such as type 2 diabetes, breast cancer ovarian cancer and postpartum depression would be decreased if mother breastfeed their babies. And babies would have a lower risk to get necrotizing enterocolitis, lower respiratory infections, asthma, obesity and type 2 diabetes. In poor family, breastfeeding can save the cost of formula milk and health care. For society, if 90 percent of mothers breastfeed their babies for 6 months, 1000 deaths of infants will be prevented. For environment, the amount of rubbish would be decreased due to the less of formula can and bottle.

Have you ever witnessed breastfeeding in public? What could be wrong about a mother nourishing her child? That’s right, nothing is wrong with that. Breastfeeding is when a woman nurtures her child from her breast. This has been around since before the 15th century. Breastfeeding in public has been made controversial by society’s outlook on breasts being sexual. Although, this is a moment in life that is not widely accepted by everyone there are people who do not mind this. The main purpose of breasts is to breastfeed a child after birth. Breastfeeding in public should be universally accepted because formula is a breastfeeding replacement, breastfeeding offers endless benefits for the mother and baby, and many people incorrectly view breasts as sexual objects.

Have you ever stopped and stared when you seen a mother breastfeeding? Or maybe have you ever seen a mother getting criticized for breastfeeding? Have you ever stepped in or wanted too? The question continues to circle through people's minds. Everyone has their own opinions and are entitled to them, but does that give them the justification to judge others? A lot of mothers get criticized and lectured for breastfeeding in public. The real question is, if breastfeeding is legally aloud why are people frown upon it and should people be informed on the benefits on breastfeeding and should people be aloud to judge a mother on the decisions she choices for her child? Through this paper, we want to help provide individuals with information for them to understand why a mother would chose to breastfeed and why it's apart of there basic right to do as they wish with their child.

In his article Mead said, "the health benefits...breastfeeding...amply documented; numerous studies strongly indicate significantly decreased risks of infection, allergy, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and various cancers in both childhood and adulthood". Because of the health benefits associated with breastfeeding, less medical care is required, therefore less medical costs. Other economic benefits include saving money on formula, which is quite expensive; and you do not need water. Breastmilk is convenient and ready when the baby is ready. The medical savings and groceries savings would be significant.

If you went to a restaurant and saw a mother feeding her child formula from a bottle would you even think twice about it? Most people probably wouldn’t notice. What if it was a mother breastfeeding her child? Many individuals are offended by public breastfeeding and don’t see it as just a women doing her motherly duty and feeding her child, as with bottle feeding. Public breastfeeding has become quite the topic of controversy lately in America. Breastfeeding is simply the feeding of infants with milk from their mother 's breasts, and those who choose to do this in public are often the victims of harassment from individuals within their communities. Public breastfeeding, in America, is a mother’s right and to improve the health and well-being of children, it must be accepted.

Nutritionally, breastfeeding provides specific antibodies which help to prevent infant and childhood diseases. Diseases such as RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection) and Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus are serious diseases in infants which can lead to death (Riordan 1997). Breastfeeding is a natural immunization for infants and mothers, decreasing risks such as pneumonia, SIDS, and childhood obesity in infants. Mothers decrease their risk for breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and weight gain (Stuebe 2009). Just as diseases can be immune from breast milk, breastmilk also aids in brain development. In “Breastfeeding benefits babies’ brains”, Stacey states, “babies who had

Breast-feeding is believed to help save money and lives, according to results published in the journal Pediatrics, an American organization committed to the success of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The results suggest that breast-feeding may help prevent hundreds of deaths and many more costly illnesses each year. "These include stomach viruses, ear infections, asthma, juvenile diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and even childhood leukemia,"

Breastfeeding is a skill most mothers learn though patience and practice. But does that pain have a gain? Of course, there are plenty of benefits; not just for your baby but for you as well. Breastmilk is easy to digest and it protects your little one from a long list of illnesses. It prevents her from developing allergies, lowers the risk of SIDS and protects her from obesity. In addition to these benefits, breastmilk boosts your newborn’s immunity and intelligence. It benefits you by reducing your stress and the risk of post-natal depression. The more you breastfeed, the easier it is for you to lose your pregnancy weight.

It has been challenging to rate the strength of breastfeeding research due to the inconsistency of definitions related to breastfeeding (such as the exclusivity, frequency, intensity and duration) and inability to conduct randomized controlled trials, which would be deemed unethical. Despite the inability to obtain high-quality evidence due to practical limitations, meta-analyses continue to indicate that breastfeeding is associated with an increase of health benefits to both mothers and infants.

“Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants; it is also an integral part of the reproductive process with important implications for the health of mothers” Statement taken from the world health organization publication on the nutrition of exclusive breastfeeding.

For thousands of years, breastfeeding has been the main source that women have had to feed their babies. In today’s society, however, breastfeeding has become a controversial issue due to the increased sexualization of the female body, especially women’s breasts. This same society has failed to consider the benefits that breastfeeding mothers offer to society and, most importantly, the benefits breastfeeding offers to children. It is important to consider and remember that breastfeeding is natural and nursing mothers should be free to nurse everywhere because it is their legal right, it is the first source of nutrition for their children, it eliminates excess waste in the environment, and it benefits society.

This article was written based on a study in order to see the comparison between infant feeding attitudes with people who breastfed their child verses those who bottle fed. During this study, it was shown that the influence of maternal and paternal knowledge corresponded with parents who breastfed and bottle-fed. Fathers who bottle-fed did not have much knowledge about health benefits of breastfeeding to both the child and their mother. In this study it was also revealed that both fathers of breastfeeding and bottle-feeding were more embarrassed than their partners when it came to general breastfeeding among those who were not family members. In previous studies, it has come to a conclusion that breastfeeding has resulted in a reduced risk of infant mortality, infection, and enhance infant immunity. Studies have also shown that breastfeeding helps with mothers’ overall health and reduce their chance of getting breast or ovarian cancer. The prediction for this study was that the

According to the World Health Organization, “If every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breastfeeding up to the age of two years, about 800,000 child lives would be saved every year.” Breastfeeding has been shown to provide the mother and especially the newborn with many vital health benefits after birth, though even today mothers do not always use it consistently as the sole form of feeding for the first six months after birth. In order to understand attitudes surrounding breastfeeding, societal examinations should be done. Breastfeeding is the optimal form of feeding and should be done if at all possible for the first year of the newborns