Posted on 07/08/2018 2:56:06 PM PDT by gattaca
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations...
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I used to call these people breast nazis long ago. They want the government to force people to breastfeed their babies and make formula by prescription only.
Breastfeeding is best for babies. I breastfed all eight of mine. I don’t want the government, or some communist in the un telling me how to feed my children.
Breastfeeding assumes that the mother has proper nutrition, as well as an absence of contaminants that could harm her infant.
An advantage of formula is that it can contain balanced nutrition. Its perhaps biggest disadvantage is that it lacks probiotics found in mother’s milk that are essential to their digestive flora. It also lacks antigens, molecules capable of inducing an immune response (to produce antibodies), for local diseases.
I understand some women can’t do it but to not back it over the formula companies will just make infants sicker and less tied to their mothers
Make all the jokes you want but but breastfeeding is important and now your formula companies have the upper hands !
We women decide what we do with our boobs. Got that lefties?
I let out a little titter at your comment
Oh, bite me. These people just want top down control. I thought the governments were supposed to stay out of our private reproduction decisions!
Here is the truth about what is best for babies. At home with only their immediate family. The best, cleanest fresh raw mother’s milk there is. And no assaults on their immune system in infancy, from adulterated ingredients (in the mother’s diet or on her skin and in her air included). No vaccines the first year either.
But no one cares if the mother isn’t home and the baby is in day care all day. No one cares about the mother’s poor diet, her drugs, her lotions, or the vaccines the child gets. And donated breast milk is often flash pasteurized, killing it and rendering it useless as nourishment for the baby, relegated to a source of fluid and macros only. No bacteria to keep the baby healthy, no enzymes.
While it is true that people shouldn’t choose powdered formula for their babies, they shouldn’t do a lot of things they do. Make the formula manufacturers be honest on their packaging and stay out of it, world governments.
Formula-feeding is unhealthy and unnatural, but homosexuality is perfectly normal.
I love this place sometimes. All these breastfeeding moms like us, knowing it is best for baby, still don’t want the Law forcing women to do it. Good on FReeper moms!!
Nip it back a little, guys, or this thread’s humor is really going to suck.
“...common sense tells us that mother’s milk is the best nutrition for her infant...”
And it is very sad that less than half of US mothers breast feed their babies.
The United States also insisted that the words “evidence-based” accompany references to long-established initiatives that promote breast-feeding
The horror!
What percentage of American mothers work outside the home?
What percentage of American mothers lack an adequate supply?
Teach mothers what is the best way, but keep government & "NGO" regulations & guilt trips out of it. In some cases, supplemental feeding is essential.
“Experience tells me that there is more to this story”
Well, Govt forbid anything should be done to remind today’s pussyhat womyn that thier bodies are inherently designed to bear children and provide sustenance for them should the unborn survive the “oh crap I have a fetal mass, where is the nearest Planned Parenthood” crisis. It reminds them of the horrid conditions they escaped from so they could become the chronically miserable, hysterical, screaming offensive mass of rage they are today.
All well and good if the mother is healthy and not a drinker or drug abuser. Otherwise, formula is safer.
Actually, the veracity of the healthfulness of “mother’s milk” can depend on the health of the mother, and where poverty is very high, and nutrition qaulity is very low, it is not a given that “mother’s milk” is preferable in all cases.
Sounds like they were trying to find a way to block US based formula from their markets. But given the high rate of maternal mortality in third world countries, it would be unwise to make the stuff harder for the poor to get. I think we all agree breastfeeding is better, but there are often reasons it cannot be done.
“Guilt trips” ??? Women that work outside the home can and do breast feed. Women that do not produce enough milk can still breast feed some.
Many women just choose not to breast feed because the idea of breasts being something other than cosmetic appendages is an almost alien concept.
American rates are back up. One study showed a 51 percent rate even for six month old babies. Here in the South we have a lower rate.
3rd world starving mommas and babies equals high infant mortality rates. Feed mommas food, feed babies food. Give daddi d’s plows , nets and tools to make it better. Oh, First get rid of the govt thieves and profiteers. Yeah right.
Don’t forget the vegans. They often deprive the infant of much needed fats for brain development.
What about all the liberal crapola about keeping government out of decisions affecting a woman's body?
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