Breastfeeding My personal Experience!

Personally I was never really able to successfully breast feed my children. I tried really hard with my second child because I did a lot of research on the positive health affects from breastfeeding.  As we all know breastfeed does not only protect your infant against many common illnesses it helps them become stronger. With my first child all I could think about was how painful breastfeeding was. I felt very uncomfortable and gave up easily. With my second child I breastfeed for about two months. I found that working, going to school, and taking care of two children wasn't easy. I couldn't find the time to pump and never had enough to supply for the daycare to feed my child. I ended up having to take a lot of time off of work to try to make sure she was fed. I finally gave up because it seemed like to big of a hassle.

   

Breastfeeding in Africa

In Africa statstics state that 95% of infants are breastfeed. There are many reasons that they have such a high amount of breastfeed children in Africa. Poverty bounds most families into breastfeeding. Breastfeeding in public is common in Africa seeing as to how they go topless while doing chores. "Breastfeeding is said to be a part of tradition in Africa." (Aguayo, 2007) I was a little shocked about how woman just breastfeed anywhere in Africa. I am sure I shouldn't have been because they do typically go topless. I guess I just felt that breastfeeding was a personal experience a type of bond between mother and child. If you are feeding out in public it seems like it becomes a public bond. I feel like this information helps me understand why some people from Africa do the things that they do. I think that it helped me to relate their traditional values within breastfeeding as well. 

Aguayo V, C. D. (2007). PROTECTING BREASTFEEDING. Retrieved from unicef: http://www.unicef.org/wcaro/WCARO_Pub_Breastfeeding.pdf