Recently I am encountering many mothers who are reluctant to continue absolute breast feeding for the first six months. This is happening even after repeated counselling.
Other than conventional reasons such as ignorance, lack of proper counselling, working nature of mother, advocacy by the Formula producing companies for early weaning by 4 months, a reason mothers are citing is 'the difficulty to switching over to non breast milk items once the baby is too habituated with the breast feeding'. So they are preferring to accustom the baby to one or two feeds of artificial milk from early months.
We need to examine the problem more closely. Any comment or suggestion on the issue will be appreciated.
Badrud Doza
Link:
WHO on breast feeding
CDC on breast feeding
AAP on breast feeding
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Child care issues: problem with absolute breast feeding
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