Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Breastfeeding in a cafe in London

If you call a Facebook page "The leaking roof" (The Leaky @ B @ b) you can not expect to go unnoticed. Jessica Martin-Weber, in fact, if the view is shut in a jiffy by censorship of the social network for breach of the rules. Yet the intentions of the new mother could only be speaking of lactation, a subject that creates a few more in England line-up fronts.

On the one hand there is a reality: a third of British children cease to be fed breast milk after a week of life. Only a fifth of mothers still breastfeeding after six weeks and 7% of children are breastfed until the fourth month of life. These numbers bring into the UK in line with developed countries.

On the other hand there are those of breastfeeding is a personal battle, like Jessica, in fact, that with his "tit dripping" simply wanted to bring together moms in search of answers. But the fact that he published pictures of women breast-feeding - then topless - alerted the Facebook-censors, that soon after, however, they realized their error and put the page online, to the delight of 15 000 followers .

The fact remains that breastfeeding is still a touchy subject, so that if on one hand the NHS (National Health Service, the British National Health Service) recommended practice for at least six months, a lot of other people considered unsuitable to the image of a nursing mother and the idea that this can happen in public (the babies, you know, they can not wait when it comes to lunch time) something very improper.

Www. BabyWorld. co. uk swears that during a survey carried out in coffee chains like Starbucks and department stores like Harvey Nichols, the majority of women is in favor of breastfeeding, even in public places. But just take a trip in a few blogs to see that people (men and women) said without mincing words that the vision of a breastfeeding mother is perceived as unwelcome and ill-suited to British mothers.

Daniela De Rosa

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