Natural Lactation

Scientifically and medically prov-en that breastfeeding was of paramount importance and great benefit to the health of children and nursing mothers alike (physically, psychologically and preventive), not a modern scientific research shows this fact only recently.

  Since the end of the Forties of the twentieth century until the mid seventies it was believed that cow’s milk is better than mother’s milk, and was in feeding the vast majority of newborns in Western countries and the United States through this milk alternative. The system was used in maternity hospitals there to describe the doctor to the mother what suits her baby from alternative types of milk when they leave the hospital.

It was not doctors recommend breast-feeding only when the mother is from a poor family does not have a refrigerator to store milk for her baby! Even in cases in which they describe the breastfeeding, breastfeeding duration were not exceeding two months or three months. Those children whose feeding period is natural to five or six months was not accounted for more than five (5)% of the total population, and this figure does not represent the true number of those children with less frequently among the intelligentsia.

In addition to the belief in the superiority of milk substitute that time there was another factor that tempts mothers footfall away from him and breastfeeding women is out of work in industrialized countries and get rid of the burden of breastfeeding.

And took this infection and this misconception goes to developing countries (third world countries) at the time that Western countries (European and American) began to abandon him as encouragement to mothers to breastfeed their children and the abandonment of bottle-feeding whenever possible and for a period of not less than six months, and whenever duration of breastfeeding up to two years be the best, but in developing countries has declined rate of breastfeeding.

For example, in the Philippines has been attributed in 1950 to about 90% while in 1978 declined to 66% in the poor class of the urban population has declined by 27% among members of the educated upper classes in the community of that country.