Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from female human breasts rather than from a baby bottle or other container. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. Most mothers can breastfeed for six months or more, without the addition of infant formula or solid food. Human breast milk is the healthiest form of milk for human babies. Breastfeeding promotes health, helps to prevent disease, and reduces health care and feeding costs. Artificial feeding is associated with more deaths from diarrhea in infants in both developing and developed countries.
In Kenya breastfeeding is the most preferred way to feed infants unless there are some contraindications. Breastfeeding in public is not an issue. I have seen mums do it in public buses and in public places. If baby cries they just whip it out, although they cover with a baby blanket. In rural areas, most often they don't care. It's something everybody is used to, they just whip it out regardless of how many people are might see them. Respect to all breastfeeding moms. Most of the Africans always tell people “that's the way to go, keep your kids healthy and smart.” If you want to know the difference between breastfed and formula fed, just look around any town in America, they have group homes or special homes with kids with emotional problems and very low IQ, they trade this for their boobs!!! Breastfeeding or not, boobs naturally sag due to increased size and number of milk ducts due to pregnancy.
· I will start telling mothers how good breastfeeding is and how it had a huge impact on mothers from all over the world.
· When I have papers to do and it questions why breastfeeding is healthier or better than Enfamil and etc., I will compare them based on data from hospitals.
