Breast is best is the message as a campaign comes to Herts

It’s the end of World Breastfeeding Week, and this year’s theme has been particularly relevant to Hong Kong because it’s about allowing working women to juggle breastfeeding with earning a living – an alien concept in this world city.

In the Bryan-College Station area, the Brazos Valley Breastfeeding Coalition seeks to foster a breastfeeding-friendly community. “There is evidence that support from the family and workplace has a significant positive impact on the mother in her choice to breastfeed to the child”, Dr Satish Saluja, senior consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here, said. “But when you have children, that’s the responsibility that you take on – you spend the extra time to give them breast milk”, Crank said.

August. 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week.

If you’re a mother who bottle-fed your babies, the news that it’s World Breastfeeding Awareness Month may bring up some pretty unsettling feelings. And in a country like India where breastfeeding in considered as a taboo, it is even more hard.

Having childcare close to your work or college, so that breastfeeding can continue during breaks or before and after work. “There is also less postpartum anxiety and depression among breastfeeding mothers compared with those who do not breastfeed”, said Dr Abu Bakr. The study looked at breastfeeding rates in the first 48 hours after birth, after three-four months and after six-seven months. “What is more likely factor that determines milk supply is how the baby latches on to the mother”, said Norhaliza.

“We support greater protection for women who wish to continue breastfeeding on return to work”. In addition because of the fact that breast milk always has the ideal temperature, it does not require preparation and there are less chances that the baby will be infected. Among the benefits are supporting love and intimacy between the mother and child; quick postpartum recovery; reduced risk for postpartum bleeding, anemia, breast and ovarian cancer, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis during menopause. The “Essential Newborn Care Interventions” package includes breastfeeding as a key WHO-promoted initiative, while the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding underscores the essential interventions needed to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

“If a baby stops sucking after five minutes, it is important for the mother not to switch immediately to the other breast, but to be patient in order for the baby to get more hindmilk as well”. Thereafter infants should receive complementary foods (solids) with continued breastfeeding up to two years of age or beyond. By investing in breastfeeding we will have healthier, stronger and more productive adults in the next generation.

“Some recommend abstaining from “cooling” food during breastfeeding, like watermelon and cucumber, and to avoid chicken for fearing of causing baby rash”.