Breastfeeding for 365 days gives mothers one more reason to insist.

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　　CCTV News:(Intern reporter Feng Songyi, reporter Zhang Ke Yi) With the implementation of the "two-child policy", breastfeeding has increasingly become an unavoidable topic for the majority of school-age women to have children. Studies have shown that breast milk contains all the nutrients and antibodies needed for the growth and development of newborns within 6 months. During the period from 6 months to 2 years old, breast milk can still provide 1/2-1/3 of their energy needs and enhance the connection between mother and baby. Therefore, breast milk is the most ideal and necessary food for babies, and breastfeeding can benefit both mothers and children.　　

　　However, the current situation of breastfeeding in China is not optimistic. In February 2019, the Investigation Report on Influencing Factors of Breastfeeding in China released by China Development Research Foundation showed that the exclusive breastfeeding rate in China was about 29.2% within six months, which was lower than the world average of 43%, and it was put forward by 2020 together with the China Children’s Development Program (2011-2020) and the National Nutrition Plan (2017-2030).

　　The mother’s double pressure from physiology and psychology, the degree of family support and the atmosphere created by the whole society are all affecting the instinctive behavior of mother and baby. It needs the joint efforts of the whole society to give mothers one more reason to insist on breastfeeding, so that they can receive due respect and more care during breastfeeding.

　　The pain of "violent breast-feeding"

　　The words "blocking milk" and "breast-feeding" appear frequently in the lives of new mothers. However, some mothers don’t know that their past experience may be a "violent breast-feeding".

　　Alian (a pseudonym) is a novice mother. During lactation, she has breast swelling and caking. In order to breastfeed, she left home for the first time in the second month. However, she met an unprofessional breast nurse, which made her "hurt more".

　　Alian told CCTV reporter that when she first stepped into a dimly lit room, the breast nurse wearing a mask told her to lie down, and she didn’t talk much. She didn’t specifically communicate with her about her breast and psychological situation, nor did she ask her about the frequency and health of her baby’s breastfeeding. When she came up, she rubbed her breast lump with great force. "Her technique is very heavy. Three times of breast feeding made me feel terrible, which is more painful than giving birth to a child." Alian said.

　　After breast-feeding, Alian was very depressed. But when she came home and saw the baby in its infancy, she turned to strengthen her confidence in breastfeeding. However, is it so painful to pass milk? Yan Liu, a community breast-feeding consultant and an internationally certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), said that if you press hard and feel pain during breast-feeding, you can initially judge that it is violent breast-feeding. Breast tissue is very superficial and fragile, especially during lactation. Manual violent massage and kneading of the breast will damage the mammary duct, which will lead to more serious breast diseases.

　　"It doesn’t hurt when a real professional nurse passes milk." Alian later learned that professional breast nurses would first find out the direction of breast milk and understand the situation of breast milk, instead of blindly "violently breast-feeding". "Actually, the baby is the best ‘ Nurse ’ 。” Alian also suggested that mothers who are "painful and persistent" like her should let their babies breast-feed, find a professional and qualified breast-feeding teacher, and bravely say "no" if they encounter "violent breast-feeding".

　　When the truth is restored … …

　　In an extreme case, a novice mother handled a breast care package of 10,000 yuan in a maternal and child care store, and received breast massage service every day since the physiological breast increase. The staff who provided massage for her changed from different shopkeepers to the store manager step by step.

　　"Since we have a set meal for that store, we must wrap it up, just feed it … …” This is the attitude of the husband. In two weeks, the mother’s breasts became blue as pig liver and swollen as the size of a basketball. Finally, the mother went to the hospital and was diagnosed with multiple breast abscesses.

　　Blocking milk is just one of many problems that breastfeeding will encounter. When the truth is restored, what we see is artificially creating anxiety and weakening the breastfeeding instinct of mother and baby.

　　The common breast-feeding problems, such as physiological breast enlargement, milk deposition and mastitis, which can be effectively alleviated by improving the baby’s sucking and cold compress, have been used by merchants to make articles.

　　In addition, the breast milk substitutes we are familiar with are also the so-called "hardest hit" in the business of maternal and child services. Pi Xiaolin, director of the commodity service supervision department of the China Consumers Association, said that during the questionnaire survey, the China Consumers Association found that the cognitive bias of breast milk substitutes consumers was very serious, and pregnant mothers and lactating mothers were under greater pressure to publicize breast milk substitutes.

　　"When my mother was discharged from the hospital and returned to the community, most of the breastfeeding support she received was unnecessary or even harmful breast massage, or various breast milk substitutes propaganda, but no one could calm down and listen to her and her children’s needs." Yan Liu said that it is necessary to give professional evaluation and personalized nursing support.

　　In 2018, the World Health Organization proposed in the "Ten Measures for Successful Promotion of Breastfeeding" that when leaving the hospital, introduce community resources that can provide breastfeeding support to mothers; Work with the community to improve breastfeeding support services.

　　So how to effectively promote breastfeeding in the community? Yan Liu said that community breastfeeding support needs professional mother support groups, social workers or commercial organizations to assist mothers to receive prenatal breastfeeding education, to teach mothers to deal with common postpartum breastfeeding problems, to support mothers to discover and recognize their own and their children’s instincts, to help mothers find suitable referral channels and to give them enough psychological support and companionship.

　　According to a research on a mutual support group project for breastfeeding mothers in Michigan, USA, it was found that compared with mothers who did not receive support activities from mutual support groups, mothers who received support from mutual support groups could persist in breastfeeding for at least two weeks longer, and the rate of early lactation would be increased by 22%.

　　"Empowering" is not a slogan, but requires everyone’s real input. Yan Liu said that the staff of community breastfeeding support institutions need to have higher entry threshold and unified professional qualifications, and these institutions should be inspected and audited regularly. Approved institutions can be included in the list of community support organizations referred by hospitals for mothers after discharge, and local hospitals can recognize the evaluation opinions of these institutions before referring mothers. "However, such community breastfeeding support institutions are currently scarce in China."

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　　Who knows that milk in a bottle is hard to drip?

　　In first-and second-tier cities, in order to ensure that babies eat the healthiest "food" without delaying their work, many mothers usually choose to "carry milk". Xiaoqian (a pseudonym) is one of the "suckling" mothers in Beijing. When Xiaoqian’s baby is four months old, she goes back to work. Feed the children before going to work every day, and then put on a "small bag" to go to work.

　　Xiaoqian’s company doesn’t have a maternal and child room, so every time she sucks milk, she has to go to the bathroom to suck it. Not only is it difficult to ensure hygiene there, but there are no related facilities. Xiaoqian can only buy a small refrigerator, ice packs and ice rows to store milk. Sometimes colleagues will jokingly say, "Yo! Give it to children ‘ Cooking ’ Go! " She just smiled and "enjoyed" the milking moment alone.

　　Xiaoqian milked once in the morning and afternoon. At first, sometimes she had to squeeze by hand because she didn’t have time or tools to clean and disinfect the milking equipment. "No one around her could understand the pain at that time." She said.

　　Every day, Xiaoqian needs to take the subway for half an hour and ride the tram for 20 minutes. Those days when she ran around with the sun "carrying milk" every day made Xiaoqian unforgettable. She said, "Who knows that milk in a bottle is hard?"

　　After half a year of exclusive breastfeeding, the baby began to gradually add complementary food, and then she calmed down. Seeing that the baby ate well during the day and grew healthily day by day, she felt that it was worthwhile to "suck the milk". In this way, she persisted for two years, with a total of more than 100,000 milliliters of "back milk".

　　According to the survey, nearly 30% of new mothers in China have joined the "back-nursing family", and the proportion of new mothers in Beijing has reached the highest, reaching 50%.

　　However, employers’ awareness of breastfeeding and the lack of nursing rooms still exist. Tang Fang, director of the postgraduate teaching and research section of the Law School of China Women’s University, believes that it is particularly important to extend maternity leave to six months, establish and increase breastfeeding incentive leave, and completely refine and implement the obligation of employers to establish nursing rooms.

　　Legislation to promote breastfeeding　

　　Breastfeeding needs the common concern of the whole society.

　　Some people may wonder whether legislation can promote breastfeeding. Lei Jianwei, a representative of Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress, said that in fact, this is not mandatory for mothers to breastfeed, but to create a good environment for mothers, standardize public facilities, set up breastfeeding subsidies, etc., and provide them with more choices and support.

　　This year, Guangzhou is the first in China. Legislation to promote breastfeeding has achieved initial results, and it also reflects the characteristics of local legislation. In January 2019, 74 NPC deputies jointly submitted the "Proposal on Legislation to Promote Breastfeeding" at the Fourth Session of the 15th Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress. In May, the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress voted to pass relevant decisions, and the bill officially entered the legislative process. In June, the Social Construction Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress began to review the draft articles, solicited opinions from many parties and conducted in-depth legislative research and scientific argumentation. On this basis, the Regulations on the Promotion of Breastfeeding in Guangzhou (Draft Revision Proposal) was formed. At the end of July, the "Draft Revision Proposal" passed the first trial, and the second trial is planned for September.

　　The "Proposal for Revision of the Draft" also stipulates the construction, popularization of science, scientific research and management of maternal and infant rooms, among which the Guangzhou Municipal Health Administration Department is the supervision and management department for breast-feeding promotion, the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government provides the necessary funds for the construction, operation and management of breast milk banks, and the managers of breast milk banks give certain nutritional subsidies to donors to solve the problem of difficult operation of breast milk banks.

　　"The whole law hopes to form a breastfeeding support system with the participation of the whole society by mobilizing all resources and strength of government departments, medical institutions, employers, society and families." Lei Jianwei said that the most effective and influential way of policy advocacy is legislation. Breastfeeding legislation can have a lasting impact on relevant people in this field in Guangzhou.

　　More than half of breast milk is water, which is as important as water and is called "the source of life". Promoting breastfeeding is an important aspect of promoting children’s healthy growth, which requires the support of every mother and family, the advocacy of the government and the understanding and promotion of the whole society.