Tuesday 07/10/12
Selamat Malam!!! (Yes, goodnight!)
MY FAVORITE DAY AS OF YET OUT ALL OF THESE LECTURES AS OF RIGHT NOW!!! IT WAS ALL ABOUT BABIES!! HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT??!!!
Ok, now that I got that off of my chest! I have to say that anybody would had been inspired to do better by their unborn seed after today’s lectures. With all the data these initiatives are putting out, its so amazing that the world can still be selfish and ignorant to what is simply the right thing to do. But MONEY talks louder than our own inner intuition, so I guess I am the ignorant one for thinking people can filter out the bad to protect the good.
Baby itinerary:
10am
- Visit to World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA: http://waba.org.my/)
- Visit to International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN: http://www.ibfan.org/)
12pm
- Lunch [Own Arrangement]
2:30pm
- Visit to Baby Friendly Hospital (http://www.unicef.org/malaysia/Breastfeeding_-_BFHI.pdf)
WABA:
- Began in 1991 to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding
- They have plenty of advocacy programs (students go for a field experience)
- Started breastfeeding week which is August 1-7
- The two biggest killers of children under the age of 5 is pneumonia & diarrhea
- Breastfeeding provides protection from both
- Breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding is the biggest debate in the world of parenthood
- All government hospitals are “baby-friendly” (which only means no breastmilk substitutes or products like bottlefeeding allowed in the hospital but nothing else that protects the babies. Most definitely misleading, but it is better than nothing.)
- The first private hospital to be “baby-friendly” was 7 day adventist
- Scandinavian countries are the best countries to be a parent. The offer amazing maternal and paternal leaves so parents can be just that, parents with jobs.
- Denmark has a parental leave of 1 year and Sweden 2 years
IBFAN:
- The politics of Breastfeeding
- Marketing creates a need that was not there (breastmilk substitutes)
- IBFAN train government to write legislation based on the ICDC (Nestle Boycott: the biggest monster in the industry)
- Monitors country by company enforcement,, law, policy, law drafts
- Nestle owns 40% of the market
- Dannon is close behind
- The code was adopted in 1981 and revisited every 3 years
- Companies bully governments. THE END.
- Question your environment/legislation
- We already pay thousands time more for formula and water is worth. What is next? They are already selling AIR in Japan.
- Faulty products are always blamed on the consumer. 14% of U.S. formula has enterobacteria.
- Papa New Guinea banned bottles from being sold freely in the country. It is by prescription only.
- Western products are automatically trusted in developing countries, so they will always be bought over the local products and information.
Pregnancy Center of the Adventist Hospital- “God Heals, We Help”:
- Baby Friendly Hospital has so much potential
- Milk powder was created about 100 years ago only for replacing breastfeeding
- Some say breastfeeding is normal but is not normally known. Meaning women have to be “taught” how to breastfeed.
- I DISAGREE, it is innately known, but there are many mental blocks put in place by society pressures that make a parent feel they are unable to breastfeed. Few instances where a mother is not able to produce milk for medical reasons. What were women doing before formula? Breastfeeding naturally!
- They emphasize and teach breastfeeding after conception until postpartum
- How to express and store milk without a breast pump
- Started a Kangaroo club to support breastfeeding mothers
- 80% of babies are breastfed within the first hour (that is a wonderful statistic)
- They have a policy for babies to be skin-to-skin for the 1st 5 mins and to breastfeed within the 1st hour, if the child eats.
- They are quite knowledgeable about how to make a true “baby-friendly hospital but due to cultural norms, Western ideals, and other concerns it prevents them from doing the right thing. 50% of their births are c-sections.
Random note:
- Postpartum Confinement Centers (http://www.babycenter.com.my/pregnancy/asian-postnatal-practices/confinement-practices/)
- come to find out that the babies were taken away and fed formula behind the mothers back }:o(
- A mothers milk is the best thing for an infant. It adjusts according to the infant needs. Society acceptance or not of breastfeeding is an important factor in community/global health. There is a lot of production and chemical waste to produce the materials for breastmilk substitutes. Not to mention the difficult process to make one bottle properly and cultural practices that may actually put an infant’s health in danger. Breastmilk is free and breastfeeding has many protective factors for parents, infants, and society.
Here is some great stuff:
Krystal
