Essays on Breastfeeding
The general message conveyed in the article “Overselling Breast-Feeding” was to distinguish between the positives and negatives of breast-feeding and formula feeding. The article also betrays different roles in the way society and health professionals distinguishes mothers’ capabilities of feeding their baby. There are many benefits on all sides that include breast pumping, breast-feeding, and...
Child malnutrition has become a global embarrassment; particularly in the developing world where malnutrition is the attributable cause of more than half of all child deaths. In West and Central Africa – a region with some of the highest child malnutrition and mortality rates worldwide – 56 percent of child deaths could be averted if...
Many studies conformed that the reasons for the low exclusive breastfeeding rates to the baby aged 0-6 months worldwide are many and vary from country to country. Common reasons include Poor understanding of the role of breastfeeding in advancing human and health rights complacency, which may be one of the biggest threats to optimal infant...
Introduction Breastfeeding has a number of benefits for both mother and infant and there is a wealth of different factors out there that contribute to a woman’s decision of whether she chooses to breastfeed her infant or not (Emmanuel, 2015). One of these factors is the mothers experience of breastfeeding her previous children and how...