Breastfeeding

Lately I have been listen to parnets talk about why they are going to breastfeed their newborn.  Here in the USA breastfeeding is widely push for new moms to try and do if they can.  Working in a building with women it is amazing because all they talk about how they are able to bond with their baby.  The mom are allowed time from their calssrooms to pump milk for their babies.  I once had a talk with my mom and asked if she ever breastfed me and she said "yes" I than asked her why she did so? "Her responce was it allowed me time to spend with you before I had to work."  I have read many articiles on why it is important to breastfeed and the major outcome was that the child would be healthier when they get older. I am told that there are a lot of nutritan in a mother breast milk.  I this topic is meaningful to because my mother breastfed me.
I looked at breastfeeding over in Asia because of their large population. As I read many areas are not breastfeeding like other areas and baby survial is very high.  As time went on a study was preformed to show mom how babies that were giving breast milk had a better chance of life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6220740.stm

Childbirth-In your life and Around the world

I will talk about the birth of my sister, because I do not have children of my own.  I think back to September 14, 1990, I had just got home from and my mother was home after being sent home from the hospital cause she had not dilated much for them to keep her in the hospital.  I think back to the days when my mom would take me along with her when had a doctor appointment and how they would ask all kinds of question to find out information about her history and any problems she may have had in the past.  well the day my sweetheart was born I witnessed it all because she was born in the house, there was not enough time to get my mom back to the hospital.  I was sent downstairs to the police station to get a cop, and my uncle was on the phone with an operator walking us through the step to deliver my sister.  Once we were able to see the head I was at aw with what just happened in front of me.  This little tiny bundle of joy is here & I help to get her here.  My was able to eat healthy and visit the doctor on a regular basis and stay in a very nice hospital.
Well looking across the world at China where a women who lived  in the rural parts did not receive the care their counter parts did. These women in the rural areas had no prenatal care and that put the child risk for anything, such as low birth weight development problems and or death at birth.  So if one lives in the best part of China you get the best of everything and rural areas get nothing.


Jin, L. and Wen, M. , 2003-08-16 "Infant Birth Weight, Prenatal Care and Community Socioeconomic Characteristics in China" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106915_index.html