“Feed your baby with breast milk and he/she will grow up to be a human; give him/her a bottle-feed of powdered milk, soon he/she will behave like an animal!” It may sound preposterous and that’s how our old grannies used to think about breast-feeding infants.
Breast-feeding has been the tradition the world over from time immemorial until the emergence of multi-national companies with ‘vivid ideas’ conditioning the human mind to create new market forces in a new found industry of powdered milk and feeding bottles. This ‘new’ concept of bottle-feeding was a product of the West, however, over the years they have woken up to be wiser and more and more Western mothers have turned to breast feeding.
In contrast mothers in the developing world being enticed by alluring advertisements of chubby, happy toothless grinning infants on baby food labels and on glossy magazines have been picking up the misguided habit of bottle-feeding and seemingly transformed the whole process into a fashion rather than a convenience.
Some of the Western mothers might consider it as an ‘Asian cultural fixation’ but unless there is a medical issue for not breast feeding a baby, there is absolutely no question as to whether a mother should breast feed her babe-in-arms or not. Many mothers do not breast feed their babies out of convenience or whatever excuse they can come out with. Women by nature are born with mammary glands and these develop accordingly to feed their babies with milk.
Read full article: http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/09/fea04.asp
Breast-feeding has been the tradition the world over from time immemorial until the emergence of multi-national companies with ‘vivid ideas’ conditioning the human mind to create new market forces in a new found industry of powdered milk and feeding bottles. This ‘new’ concept of bottle-feeding was a product of the West, however, over the years they have woken up to be wiser and more and more Western mothers have turned to breast feeding.
In contrast mothers in the developing world being enticed by alluring advertisements of chubby, happy toothless grinning infants on baby food labels and on glossy magazines have been picking up the misguided habit of bottle-feeding and seemingly transformed the whole process into a fashion rather than a convenience.
Some of the Western mothers might consider it as an ‘Asian cultural fixation’ but unless there is a medical issue for not breast feeding a baby, there is absolutely no question as to whether a mother should breast feed her babe-in-arms or not. Many mothers do not breast feed their babies out of convenience or whatever excuse they can come out with. Women by nature are born with mammary glands and these develop accordingly to feed their babies with milk.
Read full article: http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/09/fea04.asp
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