I choose to think
about and discuss breastfeeding for
this week’s blog. The professionals in China highly advocate breastfeeding
nowadays, they emphasis a lot about the benefits to children. But I didn’t have
a successful breastfeeding experience when my son was born 2 and half years
ago, and there are still some doubts and questions in my mind.
On 5th day of 39th
week of my pregnancy, the doctor strongly suggested me to have cesarean
delivery. The reason was the fetus’s shoulder is broad, and my public bone is
too small for him to go through. After listening to her, my husband and I
decided to take the cesarean delivery. With this decision, the breastfeeding
problem was coming. After the delivery, the doctor needs to treat the possible
inflammation of the surgery. The hospital tested 3 kinds of medicine, and my
body always showed anaphylactic to them. Finally, they use a kind of medicine
that I would not anaphylactic, but the result is for 1 week, I can not do
breastfeeding. After I came home, I tried and tried every day with my son, to
the end of first month, I stopped trying desperately.
I am worried about his nutrition, and felt
guilty in my heart that I couldn’t feed him, I don’t know how to choose the
powder milk, worrying about the qualities, I felt like my son didn’t have an
intimate relationship with me since he preferred to gaze and play with his
grandmother. Though little Louis is a healthy boy now, I still regret a lot
that I could not breastfeed him, and thought he should be better if I could
have breastfeed him.
When I read an article written by Antonia (2012),
she mentioned in United States, women don’t have maternal leave, and only 35%
of them give more than 3 months breastfeeding. I am not familiar with American
settings, but from 15 millions searching results in google when I typed the key
word “breastfeeding in United State”, US also pays much attention to this. I’d
love to explore more about this topic, and hope in the future, I could share
with others professionally about this topic.
Reference:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/united-states-ranks-last-on-breast-feeding-support/?_r=0
Hello Xia,
ReplyDeleteI loved your post. Your birth process and relationship with breastfeeding is very interesting. I agree with your statement that we should all pay much attention to this issue because it is very beneficial for the baby as well as the mother to commence the breastfeeding. I believe educating mothers of the importance of this special period in their child's life is crucial to the betterment of our society's future.
Hello Xia! I am so sorry about the difficult time that you has when trying to breastfeed your son! I never did breastfeed my children. Even though I know that there are spectacular benefits that comes along with breastfeeding; for some reason I was never really interested with it. I will say that many Americans breastfeed their children, just as women in China. Two reasons are because of the cost of formula is too high and the second and biggest reason of all is because of the health benefits associated with breastfeeding. Bottle feeding causes more ear infections with children. Both my kids were bottle fed and they both suffered from many ear infections. My oldest even had to have tubes put in his ears. Thanks for sharing your experience Xia!
ReplyDeleteHey Xia, I am sorry about your difficult period of life that when you was trying to feeding you son, your are not the only one in china who has the same problem, china is the lowest between developing countries that mothers not well educated about Breastfeeding, but I am trying my best to help my families where i work, to reinforcing them to breastfeeding their babies as much as they can, thank you for your greast post
ReplyDeleteHi Xia!
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely unfortunate to hear about your birth experience. I do not have children yet (but in he works) but i advocate for the full knowledge & rights of pregnant women & new moms. It is too common for women to be pressured into having c-sections, mostly for vain reasons (labor taking too long , interference of labor drugs, too many women in labor during that shift). It's quite disgusting. Of course some women medically need c-sections but this medical procedure becomes commonplace when a women's first birth was done (but not needed), then any births after are forced into c-sections. I truly wish you had a better experience then & in the future!
Hi Xia,
ReplyDeleteI had the experience of both I couldn't breast feed my youngest daughter because at the time I was on medication..Breast feeding does offer a lot of benefits for babies.I would only be nervous about is if my baby is gaining the appreciate weight .