1511cf66_all_To_Action_on_Breastfeeding__Topic
[ID] 422 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Other Areas: Anthropologist & Architect BF Mother [Comment] In order to encourage breastfeeding on a larger scale, it clearly needs to be publicly accepted. A mother, in a simple act of love and health, should not feel ostracized, ridiculed, wrong and out of place, and uncomfortable just because that crucial, unpredictable moment of need by the child has presented itself. In a âPuritanâ American society, the image of the exposed breast must become common-placed instead of taboo. This image must be re-associated with maternity, wholesomeness and goodness in lieu of sexual evocation. And, the image of the breast must be pervasive. To further increase the comfort (because that is the root of the breastfeeding discussion: comfort) the image of the 12- to 24-month old nursing must also be pervasively accepted. Why do we accept so easily the sight of a pacifier and a bottle in the mouth of a 18-month old and not a breast? Apart from spreading positive breast/breastfeeding image the other requisite change is that of preconceived notions. It has somehow been anchored in the collective consciousness that breastfeeding, especially after 6 months, reduces autonomy, âspoilsâ, creates a dependence, is psychologically unhealthy. Perhaps new reports and studies need to be issued, not only promoting the positive health aspects of Breastfeeding, but the positive psychological ones as well. [Topic] 
Support for Breastfeeding in Public Settings
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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