Infant Feeding Practices

by Liamputtong, Pranee

• ISBN13: 9781441968722
• ISBN10: 1441968725
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

It's natural... It's unsightly... It's normal... It's dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision is influenced by numerous social, cultural, and health factors. Infant Feeding Practices is the first book to delve into these factors from a global perspective, revealing striking similarities and differences from country to country. Dispatches from Asia, Australia, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S. explore as wide a gamut of salient issues affecting feeding practices as traditional beliefs about colostrums, 'œbreast is best' campaigns, partner attitudes, workplace culture, direct government intervention, and the pressure to be a 'œgood mother.' Throughout these informative pages, women are seen balancing innovation and tradition to nurture healthy, thriving babies.A sampling of topics covered:'¢ Policy versus practice in infant feeding.'¢ Infant feeding in the age of AIDS.'¢ Managing the lactating body: the view from the U.S.'¢ Motherhood, work, and feeding.'¢ The effects of migration on infant feeding.'¢ From breastfeeding tradition to optimal breastfeeding practice.Infant Feeding Practices is a first-of-its-kind resource for researchers and practioners in maternal and child health, public health, global health, and cultural anthropology seeking empirical findings and culturally diverse information on this sensitive issue.

Table of Contents

Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Across Cultures: An Introduction	p. 1
Socio-cultural Perspective of Infant Feeding and Policy Framework
Managing the Lactating Body: The Breastfeeding Project in the Age of Anxiety	p. 23
Attitudes to Breastfeeding	p. 39
The Imperative to Breastfeed: An Australian Perspective	p. 55
Infant Feeding and the Problems of Policy	p. 77
Motherhood, Work, and Infant Feeding Practices
Shifting Identities: Social and Cultural Factors That Shape Decision-Making Around Sustaining Breastfeeding	p. 95
Breastfeeding Under the Blanket: Exploring the Tensions Between Health and Social Attitudes to Breastfeeding in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom	p. 109
Breastfeeding Beliefs and Practices Among Employed Women: A Thai Cultural Perspective	p. 125
Good Mothers and Infant Feeding Practices Amongst Women in Northern Thailand	p. 141
Infant Feeding Practices and HIV/AIDS
Breastfeeding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Still the Best Despite the Risk of HIV	p. 163
Infant Feeding in the Era of HIV: Challenges and Opportunities	p. 175
Facing Competing Cultures of Breastfeeding: The Experience of HIV-Positive Women in Burkina Faso	p. 195
Fluid Boundaries: Multiple Meanings of the Illness 'Moto' in Northern Malawi	p. 211
Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Within Socio-cultural Context
From Traditional to Optimal Breastfeeding Practices: Selected Cases from Central and Southern Africa	p. 231
Hoki Ki Te Ukaipo: Reinstating Maori Infant Care Practices to Increase Breastfeeding Rates	p. 247
Infant Feeding in Indigenous Australian Communities	p. 265
Breastfeeding, Vertical Disease Transmission and the Volition of Medicines in Malawi	p. 277
Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices in Islamic Societies: Focusing on Rural Turkey	p. 289
Early Initiation of Breastfeeding and Its Beneficial Effects in Japan	p. 303
Socio-cultural Factors Influencing Infant Feeding Patterns Within 6 Months Postpartum in Rural Vietnam	p. 315
Infant Feeding Following Migration: Attitudes and Practices of Women Born in Turkey and Vietnam After Migration to Australia	p. 337
Index	p. 357
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