Child development and public health

Breast-feeding is the topic that I decide to choose this week because breast-feeding is the best natural nutrition for the baby health and his   brain development. Since this week we talked about the effects of attachments on child’s growth, I considered that breast-feeding is also the main sources of strengthen the attachment bond and promote the emotional relationship with their mothers, in fact, it  highly enhancing behaviors of the infant and the intuitive  .Generally, Breast-feeding has a huge benefit on child’s life overall. What important first is that breast- feeding protect infants from getting sick, protect them from obesity, decreasing the chances of having allergies, and protect them from severe illness. In other words, it reduced risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) statistics reveal that every 87 death from SIDS, only 3 are breastfed. Furthermore, one large study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences showed that children who are breastfed have a 20 percent lower risk of dying between the ages of 28 days and 1 year than children who were not breastfed, with longer breastfeeding associated with lower risk. In addition, children who are breast- feeding  are more likely to perform better at school than children who are on the  bottle feeding, basically, breast- feeding develop children’s cognitive outcomes and make them even smarter. The relationships of closeness that occur during breast-feeding tend to be very interesting experiences in child’s life that would boost his development from all aspects and affect his life in the future. However, Reports from UNICEF stated that the rates of breastfeeding in East  Asia has been dramatically declined due to the facts that women who works cannot have more time to nurse their babies, they return to work as soon as they gave birth.  According to the UNICEF report, as little as five percent of all mothers breastfeed in Thailand, while around 10 percent do so in Vietnam. In China, only 28 percent of babies are breastfed. Actually, there is a high percentage of women do not understand the long affect that would result from breast-feeding .Therefore, I believe that as educator it is also our role to educate women  about the importance of breastfeeding especially during the first sixth month of child’s life because this period of breast-feeding determine child’s health and his growth in future.

Refrences

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http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/81785/unicef-reports-declining-breastfeeding-rates-in-east-asia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/13/breastfeeding-child-brain-development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141143.htm

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