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Extended Breast Feeding: A Common Occurrence Today
Once upon a time, breastfeeding for women was synonymous with spoiling of figure. Women who were conscious about
the way they looked hated to breastfeed, in spite of their love for their babies, because they believed this would
lead to sagging breasts and in general loss of good looks.
Extended Breast Feeding – Why It Is Gaining Popularity Today
Medical science has done its duty in convincing the humanity at large not only that breast milk is the best gift
that a mother can give her infant, but also that it is completely safe on the breasts. As a matter of fact, if the
breast feeding is done intermittently with prescribed exercises, the breasts actually become handsomer than before
because they fill up with the milk flow.
Mothers all over the world slowly realized the injustice they were doing their babies by abstaining from
breastfeeding. This was underlined by studies which exposed milk substitutes with irregular and unacceptable
methods of processing. There were also a few scandals where ‘things’ were found in powder milk of companies of high
repute. These were foil pieces, plastic caps, match sticks and the like. Slowly, the mothers all over the world
gradually turned back to breastfeeding.
Extended breast feeding was no more sporadic instances, but regular practice mostly indulged by women who were
housewives because it was easy for them to do so by their mere presence next to the child. However, women who
worked too encouraged extended breast feeding, but this was because they felt guilty of depriving their babies due
to their work.
In Asian countries, extended breast feeding is indulged because poor (economically challenged) mothers have no
alternative food to feed their children, and hence they feel better when they have something to offer their babies.
In Europe and USA on the other hand, mothers offer extended breast feeding because they want to give their best to
their children, considering that breast milk is considered the best food that a child can have.
Today, it is common occurrence to find babies breastfeeding up to two to three years old and both mother and child
feel great about it. Some studies say that this makes children emotionally too dependent. There are studies,
however, which point the other side saying that children become emotionally more stable and physically stronger
because of this extended bond. A good number of mothers all over the world like to believe the latter
theory.
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