Did you know that the UN has a document, UNICEF Care Initiative and the WHO review "A critical link:  interventions for physical growth and psychological development" both of which emphasize the need to support women postpartum and thru the early years of the child.  WOW, isn't that amazing?   The research exists to say this needs to be done, but in our country women are supposed to get back to everything they ever did, and just kind of squeeze the child into some little part of their life. 

from WHO publ. Feeding and Nutrition of Infants and Young Children  2000, "Caring practices and resources for care...may not receive much attention by policy-makers and health professionals, perhaps because daily, time-consuming and routine activities, primarily performed by women, are not seen as critical to child health.  Yet caring practices can have a lasting effect on a child's life.  The ways in which caring practices are performed--with affection and with responsiveness to children--are crucial to their growth and development.    ...Breastfeeding is an example of a pracice that provides all of these simultaneously."

 Michelle Scott, MA,RD,IBCLC

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