Just to be perverse, over the next few weeks I tried this experiment again several more times. The reaction was always the same: circles were redrawn such that I ended up in the class of mom who, in a pinch, might feed her baby mashed-up Chicken McNuggets.
In my playground set, the urban moms in their tight jeans and oversize sunglasses size each other up using a whole range of signifiers: organic content of snacks, sleekness of stroller, ratio of tasteful wooden toys to plastic. But breast-feeding is the real ticket into the club. Many of the stories are accompanied by suggestions from the ubiquitous parenting guru Dr. The list then moves on to the dangers averted, from infancy on up: fewer ear infections, allergies, stomach illnesses; lower rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease.
But fear not, You. The root of the problem is not the sudden realization that your ideal of an equal marriage, with two parents happily taking turns working and raising children, now seems like a farce. Even Dr. In the days after my first child was born, I welcomed such practical advice. But after three children and 28 months of breast-feeding and counting , the insistent cheerleading has begun to grate. Buttermilk-like odor?
Now Dr. Sears is selling me too hard. I may have put in fewer parenting years than he has, but I do have some perspective. What dim eyes she has. What a sickly pallor. And already sprouting acne! I dutifully breast-fed each of my first two children for the full year that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. Being stuck at home breast-feeding as he walked out the door for work just made me unreasonably furious, at him and everyone else.
And in this prison I would have stayed, if not for a chance sighting. There I was, sitting half-naked in public for the tenth time that day, the hundredth time that month, the millionth time in my life—and the associations were inconsistent? The seed was planted. That night, I did what any sleep-deprived, slightly paranoid mother of a newborn would do.
Sears highlights. After a couple of hours, the basic pattern became obvious: the medical literature looks nothing like the popular literature.
It shows that breast-feeding is probably, maybe, a little better; but it is far from the stampede of evidence that Sears describes.
More like tiny, unsure baby steps: two forward, two back, with much meandering and bumping into walls. A couple of studies will show fewer allergies, and then the next one will turn up no difference. Same with mother-infant bonding, IQ, leukemia, cholesterol, diabetes. Even where consensus is mounting, the meta studies—reviews of existing studies—consistently complain about biases, missing evidence, and other major flaws in study design.
So how is it that every mother I know has become a breast-feeding fascist? L ike many babies of my generation, I was never breast-fed. In the U. Transforming soft, sandy grains from solid to magic liquid must have seemed like the forward thing to do. If baby does not finish milk at one feeding , it is probably safe to refrigerate and offer within hours before it is discarded. Want to print the above information? Go to Quick Reference Card.
What are the LLLI guidelines for storing my pumped milk? Storing and transporting breast milk from AskDrSears. Freezing Your Breastmilk by Paula Yount. Breastfeed Med. Breastfeeding and the working mother: effect of time and temperature of short-term storage on proteolysis, lipolysis, and bacterial growth in milk.
More journal articles on milk storage. Reusing expressed breastmilk. My power went out and I have breastmilk in the freezer — Help! The more months or years a woman breastfeeds combined breastfeeding of all her children , the greater the benefits to her health as well. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children be introduced to foods other than breast milk or infant formula when they are about 6 months old.
Very few illnesses are transmitted via breast milk. CDC does not list human breast milk as a body fluid to which universal precautions apply. Occupational exposure to human breast milk has not been shown to lead to transmission of HIV or Hepatitis B infection.
However, because human breast milk has been implicated in transmitting HIV from mother to infant, gloves may be worn as a precaution by health care workers who are frequently exposed to breast milk e.
For additional information regarding universal precautions as they apply to breast milk in the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis B infections, visit the following resources:. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Perspectives in disease prevention and health promotion update: universal precautions for prevention of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, Hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens in health-care settings.
Recommendations for prevention of HIV transmission in health-care settings. CDC has guidelines for proper storage and preparation of breast milk to maintain the safety and quality of expressed breast milk for the health of the baby. Human milk banks are a service established for the purpose of collecting milk from donors and processing, screening, storing, and distributing donated milk to meet the specific needs of individuals for whom human milk is prescribed by licensed health care providers.
Milk banks accept donations directly at their deposit sites external icon or they can arrange for safe, overnight transportation of human milk at no cost to the donor. The American Academy of Pediatrics external icon and the Food and Drug Administration external icon recommend avoiding Internet-based milk sharing sites and instead recommend contacting milk banks.
Research has demonstrated that some milk samples sold online have been contaminated with a range of bacteria. Nonprofit donor human milk banks, where processed human milk comes from screened donors, have a long safety record in North America.
Because most of the milk from milk banks is given to hospitalized and fragile infants, milk banks may not have enough to serve healthy infants at all times. Microbial contamination of human milk purchased via the internet external icon.
Visit the United States Breastfeeding Committee external icon website to learn more about laws related to breastfeeding protections. Being prepared for returning to work or school can help a mother ease the transition and continue to breastfeed after her maternity leave is over.
When a mother is away from her infant, she can pump or hand express her breast milk so that her infant can drink breast milk from a bottle. LLL France Article. For best printing results, open the llli. Although you can view the site well in any browser, printing from other browsers might not operate correctly. Click the Print button that is displayed on the web page not the Print command on the browser menu or toolbar.
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