Breastfeeding

A few months ago I read a article de Julius Basult which began by saying: "Without breastfeeding, the human being would not exist". It seemed sublime to me. Because we have walked through our history to create a lot of "baby" foods but before there was always a mother who breastfed her baby. It is something as obvious and primitive as it is forgotten by industry and commercial interests.

«Without breastfeeding, the human being would not exist. It is necessary to start with this obviousness to understand that breastfeeding is something as normal as walking and that, therefore, we do not need evidence to justify its benefits before promoting it or, above all, protecting it from dangerous interference. On the contrary, it is necessary that the sellers of breast milk substitutes (or, where appropriate, the act of walking) provide solid evidence of their safety […] ».

Julio Basulto (2017). "Why breastfeeding in children older than one year is not a fad". The country.

There was always breastfeeding first

The human being has evolved for survival and against customs, he has rebelled against himself and against the system, he has wandered through literary movements and political regimes, he has collected and hunted, he has pulled the strings of the economy, etc., but her survival was ensured by breastfeeding.

Later a formula milk has been invented for those babies who cannot be fed with breast milk due to health problems. But First of all there was always one Breastfeeding, And a gradually become due to the solid foods that fell through the mother's breast or sprouted from the ground.

The baby's right to breastfeed

A baby has right to be breastfed as long as he and his mom want. When to end breastfeeding it is not a decision that corresponds to the company, denying the conciliation or putting obstacles to the same or the professional career of the mother because she wants to breastfeed her baby.

Nor is this a decision that should correspond to the patriarchy that punishes babies with abrupt and disrespectful weaning because their mothers made the decision to separate. There are visitation regimes that respect the natural evolutionary rhythm of infants.

Spain, for its part, could extend the maternity leave or could regulate the activity of the company so that the real possibility of reconciliation is offered. Really, without damaging the mother's professional life. Breastfeeding must be protected.

«The tit is free»

Said Esther Masso, at the XV Congress of fedalma 2018, just a few days ago, that "The tit is free, capitalist sin". Indeed and unfortunately, it is. It does not fit in our society that the best food for our babies be free and on top of it can be extended so much in time.

For this reason, it is necessary to create continuation milks, with colored labels and recommendations, a culture of false myths about the prolongation of lactation, etc. Because a breastfed baby who does not consume "baby" food, who drinks breast milk and gradually introduces solids, does not consume and, therefore, represents a loss of income for our capitalist system.

Breast-feed it's free, but it is also es sustainable financing model. The best food for our babies protects the environment by releasing the chain of unnecessary food production during early childhood.

Physical and emotional health

The benefits for the physical health of the baby are numerous and recognized by the entire scientific community; they emphasize that contains all the necessary nutrients for its development and what has benefits for your immune system, protecting it from diseases.

It also benefits your emotional health. Through breastfeeding, the bond between baby and mother is strengthened: the baby feels protected in the warmth of his mother's breast, and in the chest he calms down, falls asleep, hears his mother's pulse as when he was in her womb and matches his breathing to hers, etc. The tit is love.

How many mothers feel challenged about breastfeeding their babies because they are already walking? How many pump milk in the bathroom at work? Or how many are professionally discriminated against for asking to be able to reconcile parenting and working life? How many fight because the division of time in cases of separation respects the breastfeeding of their babies?

All We fight for the breastfeeding of our babies, we fight for their right to be breastfed, for their physical and emotional health.