Benefits of breastfeeding

Benefits of breastfeedingLately movement that invites a return to breastfeeding increasingly heard, especially after some of the artists chosen to be ambassadors of milk. Many print media for parents and child health benefits of breastfeeding to publish his articles. However, the echo is increasingly echoed in the large cities that have not been encouraging because it shows the effect of a variety of information has not been absorbed evenly throughout Indonesia, or let's say in the capitals of provinces in Indonesia. The appointment of artists as ambassadors of breast milk has not touched most of the people of Indonesia, because the fact that many follow and have access to obtain information as that carried the ambassador's milk is only a certain class of society, namely those from upper-middle class. The mothers of middle-poor regions largely hardly have never heard of any ambassador for breastfeeding and breastfeeding movement. Even the medics who had been expected to be the mainstay of information by the mothers in large cities, counties and villages-was not given adequate information about the benefits of breastfeeding.From the results of my brief chat with some of the mothers who met in various places (markets, housing, pharmacies, universities, offices, etc.) almost all of them have never heard of the movement of milk spread the benefits of breastfeeding information and accommodate the mothers to choose based on real information. Therefore many prefer milk formula instead of breast milk.Sadly, some mothers have given complementary feeding to infants under the age of a minimum of 6 months (recommendation UNICEF, 1997). The reason most often heard is that the baby looks not as fat as baby formula, baby rarely BAK & Chapter, or the myth that a baby will refuse solid food when given continuously exclusive breastfeeding. This is of course not true. ASI has been created as GOD is the best food for babies and deserve continued even though the child has reached the age of 2 years (Al-Quran, Sura Luqman, 31:14) and can not even be compared to milk or other foods made by man.Let us both think more deeply why GOD give milk for humans? When milk is not beneficial surely GOD will not create milk for us. For additional information, in 1997, UNICEF issued a new recommendation (updating the recommendations in the Innocenti Declaration, 1990) regarding the minimum age of complementary feeding (solids), from 4 months to 6 months. UNICEF certainly not arbitrary in issuing a recommendation especially concerning human health. Various studies in the short time that no recommendation has been made to provide the best health for mankind. So it is clear that the myth of the baby's reluctance to consume solid food if only given the exclusive breastfeeding (only breast milk during the first 6 months) is of opinion that can not be justified either in terms of health or morals, it can even endanger the life of the baby. This is where the need for dissemination of information will be more comprehensive benefits of breast milk. The various parties need to be involved in order to target information more evenly spread across the country can be achieved.In terms of breastfeeding support dalamseluruh aspects of life, Indonesia needs to reflect on Norway. While developed countries like the U.S. is still grappling with the struggle to convince the mothers to give milk, Norway has been picking fruit from the promotional benefits of breastfeeding success. In these countries, the mothers feed their babies breast milk wherever and whenever, in public places like restaurants, parks, and even in stop-bus stop. A rarity for women who leave the maternity homes without nursing her newborn baby or ask for milk instead of formula milk. The mothers worked to obtain the time for 2 hours a day to go home and breastfeed her baby or breast-feeding in the office. Not only that, the mothers get postpartum leave for 48 weeks or one year while still receiving a salary! Or leave for 52 weeks by acquiring 80 percent of base salary (hegemonic Jacobson Lepri, Oslo, Norway in Canada infact site). Something similar was not found in Indonesia, but it did not become a justification for not giving milk when the mother is medically eligible, because breastfeeding is essentially a free choice of the mother based on actual information and conscience.In the state prime minister Jens Stoltenberg is there so much pressure on mothers to breastfeed their babies, especially the amount of infant formula products that circulate in the country is less than in the U.S.. It is not unusual for parents in the U.S. to receive the promotion of formula milk products when they are about to step out of the maternity hospital. It is not possible in Norway, because the demand for infant formula is very low and even advertising of infant formula is officially banned by the government (The New York Times, 2003). Compare with the conditions in Indonesia where the stigma of plump babies are very pervasive in the minds of the mothers that seek various ways to achieve the image of the chubby baby.Norway's success did not escape the role of government in the dissemination of information benefits of breast milk, but without the role of the community, outreach programs would not be successful breastfeeding. Norwegians are accustomed to receive and then follow the information that is valid and reliable, whether on education, health and lifestyle. Unlike the Indonesian community that more closely follow what is the trend of society (or rather the pressure from the public?) Without knowing with certainty the truth. Therefore do not be surprised if many more women believe myths or public opinion than the health recommendations of AL-Quran, medical journals and UNICEF.