Breast milk

Always before suporting mum with expressing milk is important to wash hand to prevent bacteries on your hands or mum contaminating milk. Immune system babies it is not jet well developed like taddlers. We need keep baby safe from bacteria because for them they can by very harmful and make them sick. To wash your hands you need scrub them thoroughly with soap and you cant forget to include under your nails and between your fingers. Rinse your hands in warm running water. Letting the water…

According to Caroline Bologna from the Huffington Post, a mom was shamed for posting a modest picture of her breast feeding on Facebook and she went on to say that pictures of Victoria Secret models are posted all over malls and social media and there is no shame in that. She describes how breastfeeding is a natural process and it should be normalized. (Transition:…

“The One Best Way:” Marketing Breast Milk In the 1920s, despite the dramatic decline breastfeeding rates in Canada, Dr. Helen MacMurchy, the head of the Division of Child Welfare, attempted to establish breastfeeding as the “Canadian way.” In The Canadian Mother’s Book, MacMurchy promoted, under her governmental title, breastfeeding as “the one best way” to feed infants. Although this message had been ignored with the medicalization of infant birth and feeding practices in the mid-twentieth…

has in early childhood, even into adult life.. Breast milk “contains many complex proteins, lipids and carbohydrate” (Andreas, N. J., Kampmann, B., & Mehring Le-Doare, K. (2015)) as well as many enzymes, vitamins and more complex nutrients. Formula does not contain near all the nutrients that breast milk does, which is why breastfeeding is more effective at preventing many diseases and illnesses.…

increasingly more stories and news articles have appeared about women liberating themselves and their families. These women are choosing to breast feed in public, regardless of society’s ideas on its appropriateness. Why is a woman feeding her child seen as an inappropriate act in society? Woman are sexualized. A person sees a breast and it is immediately sexualized. Breasts are not sexual organs though, they are on the human body with the intent that they will be used to nourish a future life.…

Since, birth we are exposed to culture and our culture is what enables us to grow and one day become a functional member of our community. However, each culture values their own set of skills and values that they find important for their children as well as their entire community. We will be examining the child rearing of my 50-year-old mother Dolores compared to the Mayan or US family practices. My mother has four children in total: the oldest being my brother age 30, along with my two older…

Advantages of breastfeeding Breastfeeding provides numerous benefits to both mother and child. Some of the benefits are; • Protection against diseases Breast milk has antibodies that help fight against diseases and lowers the risk o the child contracting diseases such as asthma, ear infections, and allergies. Breastfeeding also lowers the mother’s risk contracting ovarian and endometrial cancer. • Weight Management Breastfeeding helps the mother lose weight; breastfeeding burns extra 500…

Breastfeeding has slowly again become the staple of health for infant nutrition and enrichment. In the past breast milk was the basic diet available to infants but throughout time the advances in formula, ease of access, and availability surpassed the breastfeeding craze. Now though, as more studies and the publication of these studies have taken place it has become apparent that formula is not the best available nourishment. Many large health organizations, such as the World Health Organization…

As we make our New Year’s resolutions for 2016, many parents may say they want to be a better parent or spend more time with their family. But some should think about being less judgmental of other parents. Many of today’s parents think they stumbled upon the golden ticket, and they have all the right answers when it comes to children. Some mothers are all too quick to point out other parents’ alleged inadequacies with their own kids. Faced with all of the snarky comments and dirty looks…

more physical contact and a more secure feeling for the mother and child. (3) Breastfeeding started a resurgence again in the late 1960s and 1970s as well and continues today. However, I think social media has more of a hand in the deciding factor to breast feed or not. More articles, are accessible through online sources, and more people, especially expectant mothers post articles about benefits and risk of breastfeeding vs bottle feeding. Breastfeeding seems to becoming a socially acceptable…