Breastfeeding Communiqué

Here is the list of articles in the latest Breastfeeding Communiqué 2009-2010

  • Why China poisoned its young, by Alison Barrett
  • Report from the International Conference on Infant, Toddler and Preschool Mental Health, Auckland February, 2010, by Carol Bartle
  • Why infant formula causes deaths due to diarrhoea in emergencies, by Karleen Gribble
  • Breastfeeding: a vital emergency response. Are you ready? by LLL Canada
  • Media and breastfeeding: Friend or Foe? by Jane D Brown, Sheila Rose Peuchaud
  • Got milk? Not in public! by Jacqueline H Wolf
  • The death of Senator Ted Kennedy: A loss of an international breastfeeding advocate by  Karleen Gribble
  • Viola Lennon 1923-2010, LLLI Board of Directors
  • Sleeping with your baby, by James J. McKenna
  • LLL Supports safe bed-sharing, 2010, LLLNZ
  • The Importance of critical reading, by Nicola Aquino, Patricia Millar
  • Supporting mothers with mammary hypoplasia,by Diana Cassar-Uhl
  • Gentling baby to a bottle: When a breastfed baby is bottle-fed, by Alice Roddy
  • Why Calcium in breast milk is independent of maternal dietary calcium and vitamin D, by Jacqueline C Kent, Peter G Arthur, Leon R Mitoulas, Peter E Hartmann
  • Three good reasons not to use a photocopier, by Anne Heritage
  • Research Summaries

 

The following is an excerpt from "Supporting Mothers with Mammary Hypoplasia"

In our quest to support breastfeeding mothers and their babies, we encounter few cases more tragic than those in which the mother prepares and plans to breastfeed her baby, practices optimal breastfeeding management, and has lots of support in early postpartum days-but never makes enough milk for her baby to thrive.

Often the mother is told by her baby's paediatrician that she needs to feed the baby artificially at once or risk serious trouble, and no one explores her milk shortage because health care providers are focused on ensuring that the baby's nutritional status is adequate.

The mother's self-esteem might suffer if she feels that her body 'failed' her, and she may feel cheated of the breastfeeding relationship and nurturing she dreamed of sharing with her new baby. Worse, she may never get enough answers as to why she was unable to provide enough milk for her baby. As time passes, she may wonder whether she should attempt to breastfeed any other babies she might have....

 

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