Breastfeeding
I chose breastfeeding because my sister Jackie, pictured above was the only one of my 5 siblings that was breastfed. My mom chose to breastfeed my sister because of lack of finances. After reading and researching the benefits of breastfeeding It gave me the opportunity to share with my mom how what appeared as a negative (limited finances for formula) in raising one of her six children was actually yielding positive results. First of all she has a higher IQ than all of us and is classified as gifted, she always excelled academically and received numerous honors. She is also the one out of the six that does not have a problem with her weight. She was and is the healthiest of the six children. Jackie is the fourth child out of six. David is the fifth child. There is a five year gap between David and Jackie. This is not the case between my other siblings they are a year apart. My mom always said she wondered why their was such a large age gap between Jackie and David, well now she knows the reason could possibly be breastfeeding, the natural contraceptive.
Breastfeeding and Asians
Although here in America, there is a cry to breastfeed babies to the age of 3. (click link to view more on
The opposite is taking place in East Asia and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is voicing an alarm at the decline of breastfeeding across East Asia, and are stressing the need for mothers to understand the long-term benefits of breastfeeding. These low breastfeeding rates is the result of economic developments that's enabling more women to enter the workforce. Aggressive marketing of infant formula in the region is a cause for the decline as well. As little as five percent of all mothers breastfeed in Thailand while around ten percent do so in Viet Nam. In China, only 28 percent of babies are breastfed.
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This is a amazing observation. Thank you for sharing. I liked the research that you did on the other countries. I have read about the decline in breastfeeding. Even in our third world countries. Why do you think that is? Maybe because all woman have more responsibilities than earlier years. Do you think that mothers are not taking care of themselves nutritionally. I have heard that this is happening here in the USA. Therefore they cannot produce milk. That and change in the lives of the mother.
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Through many PSA and even programs like WIC (Women, Infant,Children)Breastfeeding is not as uncommon as it use to be in all segments of our society. Thanks for your research.
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