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A lot of people don't know much about breastfeeding. Pediatricians and La Leche League alike recommend feeding on demand to support supply. Supply problems are not at all uncommon. The only way to generate supply is to feed. Feeding on demand aligns the babies needs with the mother's supply.
Sorry, I presumed and shouldn't have that you were american.
It doesn't matter that you didn't follow the conversation. I summed it up to you, it exists, and proves my point. No, it's not only Australians who need such a statement
The USA is a bit behind in many social reforms, but much of the Western world accepts that women will nurse the infant regardless of where they are. For example, they may sit on a park bench for 20 minutes to nurse, and then carry on. I understand that someone women prefer to be active and doing exercise while nursing, so they will not stop what they are doing and pay attention to the child who is eating. I don't think that's best, but clearly it happens.
There will always be exceptions, such that some people do not accept discrete breastfeeding in public. I don't think nursing for the cameras is going to change their views.
Who does the schedule benefit?
The child or mother?
Or is it a compromise that has some benefit to both?
If it benefits both, then is it not possible that feeding her child while working could also benefit the child and beyond?
As I said, children are known to thrive in a structured, stable, consistent environment where meals and other activities are predictable. Infants will respond to, adapt to, and thrive within, a structured schedule if that is what they are provided. The mother and child benefit when the adult makes the decisions.
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Not what I was expecting and while I probably would not have felt comfortable nursing my child in that situation, I'm also not offended by it.
The sad thing is there are probably far more offended (or feigning offense) by a woman feeding he child than by bombing the crap out of countries that have done nothing to us.
As I said, children are known to thrive in a structured, stable, consistent environment where meals and other activities are predictable. Infants will respond to, adapt to, and thrive within, a structured schedule if that is what they are provided. The mother and child benefit when the adult makes the decisions.
This is just not true of breastfeeding. It just isn't. When they are older, they can get into a schedule. But young babies need to be breastfed on demand for supply. Where the hell do you get your information?
Infants will respond to, adapt to, and thrive within, a structured schedule if that is what they are provided.
Thrive in comparison with what?
Our utopian mother who has 24 hours a day to attend to her child's need
or to real-life mothers who have other responsibilities and fancies?
That children can thrive in a structure supports my point that compromises, such as, taking one feeding session and neither giving the child a bottle and baby sitter nor missing work to stare into his/her eyes can be just fine for a child.
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