Happy World Breastfeeding Week

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Happy World Breastfeeding Week

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today is the end of the week made to raise awareness of breastfeeding
here is a famous Khmer song designed for it
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You can give them water if they're thirsty. Guess it's just a blanket warning to stop them getting the shits from bad water but if it's hungry all the time maybe your titties aren't doing the business. Although sometimes it's just hot and sweaty. Poke it, smell it.
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Same old shit. I've been hearing since the early 80's. The companies are still allowed to advertise that their formula milk makes babies bigger stronger and smarter. What they should be telling them is that their babies have a 5x greater chance of dying compared to breast milk. Why do governments still allow it? That stuff should be on prescription only.
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cptrelentless wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:36 pm You can give them water if they're thirsty. .
I think you'll find that's the problem. Dirty water. And companies like Nestlé knowing the stats and not giving a fck.
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Breastfeeding is the ideal way to feed and nourish a child, but there are circumstances where it doesn't work out.
Formula like Similac or Dumex is far too expensive for many. It's $20+ just for can that only lasts a few days.
So those with little means and withered breasts will wean their baby on a gruel of ground-up rice and fish.
They sometimes waste money supplementing this with condensed "milk", which is seen as healthy.
In reality these products contain little other than palm sugar and lecithin.
I'd like to know if there is much emphasis put on infants whose mothers are not able to breastfeed them,
unless they have the resources these children would be most susceptible to malnutrition and later problems.
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:dm: i was breastfed and i turned out fine... :crazy:
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Certainty breast is the ideal option, and yes, you do need to counter the Nestle bottles of death, although most people in the boonies at least boil their water. My concern with bottle feeding the baby was that it was making him a fat diabetic and the phthalates in the plastic were shrivelling his nuts. They could have an internal market in screened human breast milk. I appreciate that they don't want it exported but it would be something positive the government could do to deal with malnourishment and it's not like they have a dairy industry. I got given free milk as a child, but that was cows milk and it'd likely give them all wind, anyhow. That rice gruel shit they feed them can't do them any good, it's no wonder they're all tiny and wail all the time.
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cptrelentless wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:13 am Certainty breast is the ideal option, and yes, you do need to counter the Nestle bottles of death, although most people in the boonies at least boil their water. My concern with bottle feeding the baby was that it was making him a fat diabetic and the phthalates in the plastic were shrivelling his nuts. They could have an internal market in screened human breast milk. I appreciate that they don't want it exported but it would be something positive the government could do to deal with malnourishment and it's not like they have a dairy industry. I got given free milk as a child, but that was cows milk and it'd likely give them all wind, anyhow. That rice gruel shit they feed them can't do them any good, it's no wonder they're all tiny and wail all the time.
Yeah, Nestlé's answer was/ is to go round villages handing out their first (and last) free tin of the stuff complete with a bottle of water. Like MFIs, they only really have a very bad effect on some of the poorest and most vunerable. They try to buy bottled water, or boil it, but when they run out of cash for wood etc, they use what they've got to hand. The screened breast milk idea is a good one, but is there enough profit in it?
Untill then, they get to lose their land and their baby. They're poor and stupid though right? So, who gives a fck. Don't they know we're all living in a meritocracy.
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The one week of the year when you don't have to say, SHOW YOUR TITS! :stir:
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In upper-class families it's never too late for bitty.
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