This article has some serious issues. Feeding baby is best. Support systems for BF IS critical. Black women face racism in maternal care.
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This article fails to acknowledge any of the findings of the huge disparity in pregnancy mortality in the US with black women due to racism.
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I value reading about individual's personal stories, but this comes close to shaming folks for not breast feeding.
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Supplementation when baby is born if there are problems with milk is perfectly ok. Dehydration is not.
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Education and access to breast pumps and support and time to pump at work is critical.
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An article about workplace support of folks would be awesome rather than blaming folks families. Also access to PAID parental leave.
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TIL about Tabitha Walrond convicted for starving her breastfed 7 week old babyhttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/mother-convicted-in-infant-s-starvation-death-gets-5-years-probation.html …
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Here in South Africa, and Africa at large, it is the opposite practice.
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that one actually made me chuckle
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Resource to breast feed is in the person. It's not resources problem but more need to work problem. Poor can't take the time off, must work!
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Ok, I'll give u the compromise on that as part of the problem tho the act itself is natural, educating y it's a better choice is resources.
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Things have changed since the wet nurse days, possibly black women are less likely to breast feed in public from my observation.
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why? who cares? let them do what they want. geez, more senseless news
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Because we care about the health and well-being of fellow Americans?
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who does? US Senators don't seem to care
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