and I asked him tell where are you going, this he told me:
Well, I'm going down to Yasgur's farm, going to join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land, set my soul free.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Well, then can I walk beside you? I have come to lose the smog.
And I feel like I'm a cog in something turning.
And maybe it's the time of year, yes, and maybe it's the time of man.
And I don't know who I am but life is for learning.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong,
and everywhere there was song and celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky,
turning into butterflies above our nation.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil's bargain,
and we got to get ourselves back to the garden. ~~ Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Written by Joni Mitchell.LOOK AT ALL THE WAYS YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR WORLD.
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Breastfeeding and Guilt
Written by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
One of the most powerful arguments many health professionals, government agencies and formula company manufacturers make for not promoting and supporting breastfeeding is that we should "not make the mother feel guilty for not breastfeeding." Even some strong breastfeeding advocates are disarmed by this "not making mothers feel guilty" ploy
Because, indeed, it is nothing more than a ploy. It is an argument which deflects attention from the lack of knowledge and understanding of most health professionals about breastfeeding. This allows them not to feel guilty for their ignorance of how to help women overcome difficulties with breastfeeding, which could have been overcome and usually which could have been prevented in the first place if mothers were not so undermined in their attempts to breastfeed. This argument also seems to allow formula companies and health professionals to pass out formula company literature and free samples of formula to pregnant women and new mothers without pangs of guilt, though it has been well demonstrated that this literature and the free samples decrease the rate and duration of breastfeeding.
Let's look at real life. If a pregnant woman went to her physician and admitted she smoked a pack of cigarettes, is there not a strong chance that she would leave the office feeling guilty for endangering her developing baby? If she admitted to drinking a couple of beers every so often, is there not a strong chance that she would leave the office feeling guilty? If a mother admitted to sleeping in the same bed with her baby, would most physicians not make her feel guilty for this even though it is the best thing for her and the baby? If she went to the office with her one week old baby and told the physician that she was feeding her baby homogenized milk, what would be the reaction of her physician? Most would practically collapse and have a fit. And they would have no problem at all making that mother feel guilty for feeding her baby cow's milk, and then pressuring her to feed the baby formula. (Not pressuring her to breastfeed, it should be noted, because "you wouldn't want to make a woman feel guilty for not breastfeeding.")
Why such indulgence for formula? The reason of course, is that the formula companies have succeeded so brilliantly with their advertising to convince most of the world that formula feeding is just about as good as breastfeeding, and therefore there is no need to make such a big deal about women not breastfeeding. As a vice president of Nestle here in Toronto was quoted as saying "Obviously, advertising works." It is also a balm for the consciences of many health professionals who, themselves, did not breastfeed, or their wives did not breastfeed . "I will not make women feel guilty for not breastfeeding, because I don't want to feel guilty for my child not being breastfed."
Let's look at this a little more closely. Formula is certainly theoretically more appropriate for babies than cow's milk. But, in fact, there are no clinical studies which show that there is any difference between babies fed cow's milk and those fed formula. Not one. Breastmilk, and breastfeeding, which is not the same as breastmilk feeding, has many more theoretical advantages over formula than formula has over cow's milk (or other animal milk). And we are just learning about many of these advantages.
Almost every day there are more studies telling us about these theoretical advantages. But there is also a wealth of clinical data showing that, even in affluent societies, breastfed babies, and their mothers incidentally, are much better off than formula fed babies. They have fewer ear infections, fewer gut infections, a lesser chance of developing juvenile diabetes and many other illnesses. The mother has a lesser chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer, and is probably protected against osteoporosis. And these are just a few examples.
So how should we approach support for breastfeeding? All pregnant women and their families need to know the risks of formula feeding. All should be encouraged to breastfeed, and all should get the best support available for starting breastfeeding once the baby is born. Because all the good intentions in the world will not help a mother who has developed terribly sore nipples because of the baby's poor latch at the breast. Or a mother who has been told, almost always inappropriately, that she must stop breastfeeding because of some medication or illness in her or her baby. Or a mother whose supply has not built up properly because she was given wrong information. Make no mistake about it—health professionals' advice is often the single most common reason for mothers' failing at breastfeeding!
If mothers get the information about the risks of formula feeding and decide to formula feed, they will have made an informed decision. This information must not come from the formula companies themselves, as it often does. Their pamphlets give some advantages of breastfeeding and then go on to imply that their formula is almost, actually just as good. If mothers get the best help possible with breastfeeding, and find breastfeeding is not for them, they will get no grief from me. It is important to know that a woman can easily switch from breastfeeding to bottle feeding. In the first days or weeks—no big problem. But the same is not true for switching from bottle feeding to breastfeeding. It is often very difficult or impossible, though not always.
Finally, who does feel guilty about breastfeeding? Not the women who make an informed choice to bottle feed. It is the woman who wanted to breastfeed, who tried, but was unable to breastfeed. In order to prevent women feeling guilty about not breastfeeding what is required is not avoiding promotion of breastfeeding, but promotion of breastfeeding coupled with good, knowledgeable and skillful support. This is not happening in most North American or European societies.
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Handout #23. Breastfeeding and Guilt. August 1997
About the Author
JACK NEWMAN graduated from the University of Toronto medical school as a pediatrician in 1970. He started the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984 at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He has been a consultant with UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in Africa, and has published articles on the subject of breastfeeding in Scientific American and several medical journals. Dr. Newman has practiced as a physician in Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.
If you would like to contact Dr. Newman, you can mail him at: [email protected]
101 Reasons for Breastfeeding
How to Suckle Your Blessed BabyIs breastfeeding easy?• Once breastfeeding is established, it is easy. Breastfeeding is natural, but you, your body, and the baby may need time to get adjusted...• Breastfeeding makes you part of a miracle that you can share with your baby. Breastfeeding is not painful, although your nipples may be sensitive at first...• Since before anyone can remember, American Native and Alaska Native women have made enough breast milk for their children, often more than one child at a time. Villages, communities, and entire nations have thrived and grown strong from mother’s milk. Trust your body, you will have enough...• You are giving your baby a gift that only you can give. We are here today because our ancestors breastfed. All of our great leaders were breastfed. Our ability to breastfeed has not changed. You can do this...• Being a mother is a new journey with each baby. It is normal to worry a little and wonder. Talking to an Elder, friend, mother, or aunt can help you begin this most sacred passage into motherhood...• Nurture yourself as you would nurture your baby. Be patient with yourself as you and your baby learn together...How do I get started? While you are pregnant, tell your health care provider that you want to breastfeed. Ask women in your community who breastfed to share their stories...They will tell you how breastfeeding is a special gift that ONLY a mother can give to their child. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lucy Lawless ~ Women's Health Magazine and Breastfeeding
Lucy Lawless Breastfeeding Awareness Week
Women's Health Update Magazine
Volume 6, Number 3
October 2001
Warrior princess in stunning new role
Cordelia Lockett reports on the New Zealand campaign during World Breastfeeding Week.
When Women's Health Action¹s breastfeeding advocate Sian Burgess decided on Lucy Lawless to front the World Breastfeeding Week campaign in August, she was in for a bit of a shock. "I wanted a high-profile poster, so I thought, who¹s famous and is breastfeeding? I came up with a few names with Lucy¹s as the biggest. But I didn¹t realise quite how big! The response has been huge - from around New Zealand but also from Australia, the States, even Europe.¹
The classic madonna and child pose of Lucy Lawless breastfeeding her baby on the edge of a chair, exudes a Renaissance painterly beauty. But read the tagline below, "Breastfeeding - my best role ever¹ and it¹s utterly contemporary- bang in the middle of twenty-first century celebrity stardom.
The poster was distributed widely to maternity providers and other health professionals, secondary schools, DHBs, childcare centres and community groups.
While the response was largely positive, it provoked some controversy. A few people questioned the combination of breastfeeding and sexy sophistication.
"It challenges the dominant media imagery of the breast¹, explains Sian. "We are saturated with sexual images of the breast on billboards, TV, in magazines, but here we have an image of a breast being used as nature intended it. Even just seeing a photo of breastfeeding is unusual in our culture and for every one breastfeeding image, there are 250 images of bottles and artificial feeding. In this environment a photo of a well-dressed woman breastfeeding her healthy, well-fed baby (and Xena the warrior princess what¹s more), is a political act.¹
During its development, the poster was pretested with members of the target audience (young women aged 15-35 years). Sian was delighted that the group had picked up on the intended messages, demonstrated in responses like - "she makes breastfeeding fashionable¹, "she makes you think you don¹t have to stay home to do it¹ and ¹she looks like she¹s enjoying it.¹ Another part of the World Breast-feeding Week campaign infiltrated cafes and other public places young women go. Free postcards promoted the superiority of human milk for human babies and challenged the acceptance that cows¹ milk formula is equivalent to breast milk.
But surely everyone knows breast is best these days?
"Yes and no¹ says Sian. "The benefits of breastfeeding are indisputable. But while 98% of pregnant women say they want to breastfeed, by the time the baby is six months old, only seven percent are exclusively or fully breastfeeding. The social deterrents are overwhelming. Currently there is insufficient support for women to continue to breastfeed.¹
Sian advocates a range of affirmative actions to change social attitudes towards breastfeeding including:
- Extending Paid Parental Leave to at least six months to enable exclusive breastfeeding for that period. Encouraging family friendly workplace practices, such as paid breastfeeding breaks, to enable women to continue breastfeeding when they return to work. Promoting positive social attitudes towards women who breastfeed in public. Creating a community where mothers are supported and encouraged to continue breastfeeding their infants beyond the first few weeks.
I asked Sian if she thought she might do something a bit more low-key for next year¹s campaign. "I want to do something even bigger and better next year - something really extraordinary. I just haven¹t thought of it yet.¹
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