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While advocating for mothers to breastfeed within the first hour after delivering their babies sounds easy enough, breastfeeding rates have stagnated, and globally, only 40percentt of mothers breastfeed.
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Stories abound of husbands or mothers-in-law who advise against breastfeeding, of women who have too much work to spend enough time breastfeeding or communities where breastfeeding in public is considered inappropriate.
I was lucky enough to breastfeed both my boys and know it can create a truly intimate bond.
Not only do they have to develop a base weight of 2.5kgs, they also need to be strong enough to breastfeed without assistance before the hospital can discharge them.
But little more than four hours later he was well enough to resume breastfeeding - all thanks to a cheap solution of sugars and salts.
It took six weeks for the boys to become stable enough to try breastfeeding.
Mothers should understand that they can produce enough milk by breastfeeding more frequently.
I felt comfortable and... a few weeks is not long enough for breastfeeding and all that...When she left I felt very alone.
In particular, she said, advice given to mothers to impose a feeding regime whereby babies don't feed frequently, contributed to why many women felt that they weren't producing enough milk and abandoned breastfeeding.
And large families mean mothers frequently do not keep breastfeeding long enough, or introduce solid foods too early.
Duff agrees that mothers are not given enough support to breastfeed.
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