BREASTFEEDING

Breastfeeding GUIDELINES (WHO)

Evidence for the 10 steps to successful Breastfeeding

Long-term effects of breastfeeding_systematic review

PART 1: Ask 2 mothers in your environment, who belong to two different generations, about their experience as mothers either breastfeeding their children for long or NOT breastfeeding their children at all. Listen to their story. Write their story exactly as they told you and then comment on that. Do you see any connection between their breastfeeding story as mothers to their answers as babies?

PART 2: Ask the same persons how they undrstand 1.nurturing and how they do that understanding in 2. their personal life, 3. their relationships and 4. their children and generally how 5. they nurture the world/ humanity. Write their answer verbatim to each of the 5 specific questions in PART 2. Then comment yourself.

Write the answers to both parts in the same file-pdf or doc(x) and submit to your mentor

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature’s evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren’t sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form”.  Christine Northrup