Child Development and Public Health (Breastfeeding)

     Here are some interesting links regarding breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is   an amazing phenomena. To think that our bodies as mothers produce the perfect food for our babies , and this  can not be duplicated or replaced by any man made product on earth, it is truly amazing.
     Breast milk is a mild sedative, so it literally make the newborn feel happier at the mothers breast(Berger,2009,p.144).

Breast milk is the healthiest food you can give your baby — it has all the nutrients, calories, and fluid a newborn needs for the first six months of life and it's easy to digest. 


I took a quick look at Breastfeeding in Japan and discovered that it was once the norm as was home births and midwives and sleeping with your infants until after World War 11 when the occupation forces brought in western medicine to Japan and forced Japanese women to give birth in hospitals where they kept the newborns in the hospital nursery and gave them formula. Breastfeeding became rare. In 1974 Japan began promoting breastfeeding again. In 1991 Japan had the first Baby friendly hospital of any developed country and there are now 25 bay friendly hospitals in Japan and 40 board certified lactation consultants.
http://www.llli.org/nb/nbsepoct03p181.html
http://www.stippy.com/japan-life/getting-pregnant-in-japan-6/


                      Breasting Feeding Articles

hthhttp://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/time-magazines-breastfeeding-cover-moms-react-

185700989.htmlttp://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/8-basic-principles-attachment-parenting-1http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1630929351001_2114407,00.html84100449.htmltp://www.ccfc.ca.gov/parents/health-center/nutrition/#/?a=breastfeeding

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/military-moms-breastfeeding-uniform-stir-controversey-214500503.html

This stunning sculpture by Liu Qiang is an accurate depiction of humanity's use of, and utter dependence on other animals and, in particular, the savage and bizarre habit of consuming the breast milk from mothers of other species—milk that these mothers have produced for their own babies, babies that we forced them to become pregnant with only to kill shortly after birth so that we can take the bereft mother's milk, milk that we drink as though we were the children that we murdered. Live vegan. There is no excuse not to. ~ Joanna Lucas
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Milk Comes from a Grieving Mother
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/outreach/grievingMother.html

Dairy is a Death Sentence
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/outreach/deathSentence.html

The "Humane" Animal Farming Myth
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/humane-myth.html
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29h59'59 Liu Qiang is on exhibition at the 798 Art District in Beijing, China.
Photo by Ng Han Guan
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By: Matt Sladen

Pretty women wonder Where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit A fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies.

I say ... It's in the reach of my arms, the span of my hips, The stride of my step, the curl of my lips. I'm a woman ... phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud.

I say ... It's in the click of my heels, the bend of my hair, The palm of my hand, the need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman ... phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Excerpted from the Poem "Phenomenal Woman"  By Maya Angelou ©1995