I feel like this is such a huge issue. If politicians and law makers knew
that there IS indeed a difference between pumping and feeding breastmilk
versus breastfeedingn in terms of health benefits for all involved, perhaps
there might be more laws, more health insurance rules and allowances for
breastfeeding anyplace anytime anywhere for a much more lengthy period of
time. Or not.
Here in the USA, it is hard enough getting mothers to breastfeed their
babies for 4 months without pediatricians recommending solids!
There needs to be discourse with the public about what breastfeeding...the
actual act...is and what it does. Somewhere it has been distorted. I am
not sure if a scientific approach is needed, an emotional appeal, or what.
I shake my head all the time at how maternity leave is a mere 6 weeks for
some, unpaid, and in other countries is 6 months!
I myself am very interested now in the differences between breastmilk
feeding and breastfeeding. If anyone can send me links privately, I would
love to read about them. I am not coming up with much. All I see is bottle
feeding formula versus bottle feeding breastmilk or bottle feeding formula
versus breastfeeding.
Thanks,
Amberly
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:02:15 +1000
From: vgthorley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Transport of frozen breastmilk (& using correct language)
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Yes, Sue, and that is why it is so important to use the right language, the
right semantics. That is, calling it "breastmilk feeding" (not
"breastfeeding") or "bottle-feeding EBM"
Mothers need to be informed that it is not the same as breastfeeding, and
that it may lessen the protection against childhood obesity and remove one
of the three mechanisms for protection against otitis media that
breastfeeding provides, i.e. the mechanical aspect. It also introduces the
risk of infection, from carrying or transporting milk and from use of
implements (pumps, bottles, artificial nipples) that may not always be
adequately cleansed in the real world. It introduces non-physiological
suck, too, despite what the marketing claims, and this may have a bearing on
the child's oral development.
While there are good reasons for breastmilk feeding in certain circumstances
(prematurity, serious infant oral anomaly, use of donor banked milk), doing
it willy-nilly as a lifestyle choice is a different matter. Mothers may not
be making a truly informed choice, especially when they think it is "the
same".
Virginia
in Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Sue Jacoby, IBCLC, wrote:
I think we can expect lots more of this- pumping is the new breastfeeding.
nursing and typing
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