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Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the mmmmmmmm-lunch! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In 2013, 81.1 percent of U.S. mothers said they started out breast-feeding their baby. That's up from 75 percent in 2008, and 70 percent in 2000, according to the CDC.

[...] 52 percent of U.S. mothers said they were still breast-feeding their infants when the babies were 6 months old, and 30 percent said they were still breast-feeding when the babies reached 1 year.

How should society handle breastfeeding in public and the workplace? Should there be any restrictions on the age of the child?

Breastfeeding has obvious benefits for a child's development, but breast milk is also a fluid of the body that can carry disease.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-still-breastfeeds-daughter-aged-4881835

http://www.livescience.com/55846-breast-feeding-mothers-united-states.html

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:53PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:53PM (#392622)

    It's really not that complicated, unless you're of the puritanical mindset where the sight of a human breast is somehow shocking and scarring.

    Oh, and one followup on that is that the modern Religious Right is actually more puritanical about this than the actual Puritans: In the Massachusetts colony, for instance, women would routinely breastfeed in church.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:35PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:35PM (#392716) Homepage Journal

    Oh, and one followup on that is that the modern Religious Right is actually more puritanical about this than the actual Puritans: In the Massachusetts colony, for instance, women would routinely breastfeed in church.

    Women routinely breastfeed in every church I've ever been a part of, and all of them were mostly composed of the Religious Right.

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    • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:22PM

      by vux984 (5045) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:22PM (#392791)

      Most that I've seen though used a blanket, and/or went into a formal or informal 'nursery' area; often behind glass where the sermon was miked in over a speaker; so that crying babies etc wouldn't disrupt the whole congregation.

      They weren't just sitting there with their shirts wide open and their breasts out in full view in the 3rd pew.

      Maybe the churches you were in were quite different...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:27PM (#392795)

        > Most that I've seen though used a blanket,

        Also known as a booby burka.

      • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:56PM

        by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:56PM (#392801) Homepage Journal
        Most breastfeeding I've seen, church or not, didn't involve a breast out in full view.
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