Dear Tina,

I'm also interested in that paper on "Psychosocial Consequences of Not
Breastfeeding", could you also send it to me please?
Thanks a lot,

Clara F.
LLL Madrid, Spain


> 2009/10/13 Tina Kimmel <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Arly, Some of your questions can be answered by reading about the classic
> > ways "attachment security" is measured. The gold standard (flawed though
> it
> > is) is the Strange Situation, eg
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ainsworth#A_Strange_Situation.
> >
> > Researchers can choose whatever group of individuals and families they
> want
> > to look at. If breastfeeding was not specified, you know they included
> > bottlefeeding families, unfortunately.
> >
> > I wrote a chapter on "Psychosocial Consequences of Not Breastfeeding"
> (with
> > 50+ references) in my dissertation on breastfeeding policy. I can email
> it
> > to you directly.
> >
> > I think it's very interesting stuff. You can see there were only a few
> > studies (at that time in 2007, at least) which focussed directly on
> > breastfeeding and attachment, but they all conclude that there is a
> positive
> > correlation.
> >
> > A couple of studies also investigated the direction of causality between
> > attachment and breastfeeding. They concluded that it goes both ways, ie,
> > more attchment-engengering moms choose to breastfeed, but in addition,
> the
> > act of breastfeeding itself causes mothers to be more
> > attachment-engendering.
> >
> > Tina
> >
>
>


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