Comments on: Why Breast is Best, and What Needs to Change in Society to Better Support Mothers http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2032 Connecting with our children for a more compassionate world. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jennifer http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2032&cpage=1#comment-1813 Jennifer Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:00:27 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2032#comment-1813 The more info we get out there the better. Also, have to be sure the info is balanced, my daughter couldn’t breastfeed for two months, but it was 2 days before someone consented to bring me formula in the hospital because they were trying to support my breastfeeding.
Unfort. it came at the expense of my daughter who got nothing and eventually became severly jaundiced. Not as a result, but having something to excrete would have helped with the jaundice. Eventually we did nurse, after about every darn fool in the hospital tried to ‘help’ me, but it traumatized the baby, who stopped trying. I had 2 months of pumping before she matured enough and recoved enough from be forcibly latched on over and over,that she tried again and we succeeded. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, but finally we nursed for 2 years and it was worth anything to get there.

Best luck you all! And a little formula can help,but find out about formula too, some of that stuff is just waste from other food industry, it’s appalling really how much of what we think is good for us is just well-marketed garbage.

Jen

]]> By: Erin http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2032&cpage=1#comment-19 Erin Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:48:04 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2032#comment-19 It is true that the medical system needs to change, but there are so many other people and places that influence this decision other than at the OB/Dr. brief prenatal appts. My local breastfeeding coalition did a survey and found that many women did hear about/learn about/get asked about breastfeeding sometime during their appt. (nurse/Dr.), but that their spouse, mother, mother-in-law, and friends made the biggest difference for their reason to keep breastfeeding or stop before they had planned (almost all said that they stopped before they had planned to). Breastfeeding rates drop dramatically after the first week and some of that is because women haven’t been to classes to know what to expect, but it’s also related to their birth experience, their level of support after baby and their connection to a support network (such as API or LLL) of friends or a doula that can help them to manage problems that do arise. Of course there is always society that plays into this discussion when women are expected to feed their babies without anyone “having” to see them do it.

I agree we have a come a long way, but I think WE are going to be the ones to offer support and change the breastfeeding rates more than the medical establishments. We have more influence in the end.

P.S. Our hospital stopped giving away formula 7 years ago….now they give it out at the clinic when new parents come in for their 3 day appt.

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