Comments on: Breastfeeding is good for the environment too! http://evesecopinions.com/health/breastfeeding-is-good-for-the-environment-too/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:43:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: eve http://evesecopinions.com/health/breastfeeding-is-good-for-the-environment-too/#comment-23 eve Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:50:24 +0000 http://evesecopinions.com/?p=209#comment-23 Nice, New Zealand! I'm glad to hear that your country supports breastfeeding and midwifery. In the US, not only are our children targets of (formula) marketing before even birth; in many states, midwife practices have to sruggle through legislation to stay afloat. The lovely birth center who's midwives delivered my first son is now closed due to changes in legislation that prevent them from being allowed to deliver outside of the hospitals. My youngest son is also sixteen months old and I rely on our nursing times to relax and reconnect during busy days! It's nice to hear from a free-thinking Mamma from an open minded country. Thanks Meg, please stop by again! Nice, New Zealand! I’m glad to hear that your country supports breastfeeding and midwifery. In the US, not only are our children targets of (formula) marketing before even birth; in many states, midwife practices have to sruggle through legislation to stay afloat. The lovely birth center who’s midwives delivered my first son is now closed due to changes in legislation that prevent them from being allowed to deliver outside of the hospitals.
My youngest son is also sixteen months old and I rely on our nursing times to relax and reconnect during busy days!
It’s nice to hear from a free-thinking Mamma from an open minded country. Thanks Meg, please stop by again!

]]> By: Meg http://evesecopinions.com/health/breastfeeding-is-good-for-the-environment-too/#comment-22 Meg Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:32:20 +0000 http://evesecopinions.com/?p=209#comment-22 Hi Eve Here in NZ breastfeeding is really actively promoted to new Mums. When I was pregnant my midwife simply assumed I would be breastfeeding and no alternative was ever discussed. In hospital they offered every assistance to me to make sure my girls started out breastfeeding - luckly my little ones needed no encouragment!! I suppose, given my experiences, that the whole idea of feeding a baby formula unless absolutely necessary seems like a really odd choice. But despite the fact that breastfeeding is encouraged here, I am an anomaly in that I am still breastfeeding my daughter at 16 months! Most people I know have moved on to formula well before now! Hi Eve

Here in NZ breastfeeding is really actively promoted to new Mums. When I was pregnant my midwife simply assumed I would be breastfeeding and no alternative was ever discussed. In hospital they offered every assistance to me to make sure my girls started out breastfeeding – luckly my little ones needed no encouragment!!

I suppose, given my experiences, that the whole idea of feeding a baby formula unless absolutely necessary seems like a really odd choice.

But despite the fact that breastfeeding is encouraged here, I am an anomaly in that I am still breastfeeding my daughter at 16 months! Most people I know have moved on to formula well before now!

]]> By: eve http://evesecopinions.com/health/breastfeeding-is-good-for-the-environment-too/#comment-19 eve Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:55:47 +0000 http://evesecopinions.com/?p=209#comment-19 I was thinking about what you said Meg, about why anyone would choose to not breastfeed... I was reminded of my grandmother, (my mother was the first of ten born to her!) who didn't breastfeed any of her 10 babies! She told me that the doctor told her that her "milk was no good." Now, this was 1948 and baby formula was expensive she fed her babies Carnation condensed milk...from a can! I was shocked when I heard that. But, my grandma was just an uneducated 15 year old from the heart of the Appalacian Mountains when she started her family, she just thought that her "educated" doctor knew best. Even today, many hospitals support formula feeding as a matter of course. Thankfully, it hasn't taken more than a generation or two for us to figure out that nature knew best all along. I'm so glad you're enjoying nursing your daughter. She's getting to be in her right place with her perfect food! I was thinking about what you said Meg, about why anyone would choose to not breastfeed… I was reminded of my grandmother, (my mother was the first of ten born to her!) who didn’t breastfeed any of her 10 babies! She told me that the doctor told her that her “milk was no good.” Now, this was 1948 and baby formula was expensive she fed her babies Carnation condensed milk…from a can! I was shocked when I heard that. But, my grandma was just an uneducated 15 year old from the heart of the Appalacian Mountains when she started her family, she just thought that her “educated” doctor knew best. Even today, many hospitals support formula feeding as a matter of course. Thankfully, it hasn’t taken more than a generation or two for us to figure out that nature knew best all along. I’m so glad you’re enjoying nursing your daughter. She’s getting to be in her right place with her perfect food!

]]> By: Meg http://evesecopinions.com/health/breastfeeding-is-good-for-the-environment-too/#comment-17 Meg Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:11:14 +0000 http://evesecopinions.com/?p=209#comment-17 Great post! It seems really strange to me that anyone would consider doing anything other than breastfeeding. I'm sure that sounds really judgemental, and I realise that there are many Mums that for one reason or another can't breastfeed. But given the huge body of evidence showing how much better for baby breast milk is than any of the alternatives I don't understand the choice to bottle feed. Sure there are times when breastfeeding hurts (there are no words to describe the pain of feeding with an abcessed nipple), and occasions when you just don't feel like it . . . but when you become a parent its not just about you and what's most convenient or easiest for you. I love breastfeeding my daughter. She's also 15 months old, and I treasure our snuggly feeding times and don't look forward to the day she decides enough is enough! Great post! It seems really strange to me that anyone would consider doing anything other than breastfeeding.

I’m sure that sounds really judgemental, and I realise that there are many Mums that for one reason or another can’t breastfeed. But given the huge body of evidence showing how much better for baby breast milk is than any of the alternatives I don’t understand the choice to bottle feed. Sure there are times when breastfeeding hurts (there are no words to describe the pain of feeding with an abcessed nipple), and occasions when you just don’t feel like it . . . but when you become a parent its not just about you and what’s most convenient or easiest for you.

I love breastfeeding my daughter. She’s also 15 months old, and I treasure our snuggly feeding times and don’t look forward to the day she decides enough is enough!

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