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Infant Feeding Practices A Cross-Cultural point of view Pranee Liamputtong, Editor It’s natural... It’s unsightly... It’s normal... It’s harmful. To breastfeed or now not? For hundreds of thousands of ladies around the globe, this own selection is prompted by means of various social, cultural, and future health elements. little one Feeding Practices is the 1st booklet to delve into those components from an international point of view, revealing notable similarities and ameliorations from state to nation. Dispatches from Asia, Australia, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S. discover as extensive a gamut of salient concerns affecting feeding practices as conventional ideals approximately colostrums, “breast is better” campaigns, accomplice attitudes, place of work tradition, direct executive intervention, and the strain to be a “good mother.” all through those informative pages, ladies are obvious balancing innovation and culture to nurture fit, thriving infants. A sampling of subject matters lined: • coverage as opposed to perform in little one feeding. • toddler feeding within the age of AIDS. • dealing with the lactating physique: the view from the U.S. • Motherhood, paintings, and feeding. • the consequences of migration on little one feeding. • From breastfeeding culture to optimum breastfeeding perform. youngster Feeding Practices is a first-of-its-kind source for researchers and practioners in maternal and baby future health, public wellbeing and fitness, worldwide well-being, and cultural anthropology looking empirical findings and culturally varied details in this delicate issue.
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1 Introduction Breastfeeding practices within a given culture represent the ways in which women negotiate and incorporate dominant ideologies and institutional and cultural norms with the realities of their embodied experiences, personal circumstances and social support systems (Dykes 2005, p. 2283). Infant feeding practices in every society occur in accordance with the social and cultural norms of the society.