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United States Anti-breastfeeding Lifestyle Creates Gigantic Expenses
Taming the beast that is medical expenses is a multi-part job. Luckily, there's one solution that is simply natural. But the United States doesn't seem to be paying attention. You see, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that nursing for children over six months of age drops off dramatically, well below what their Nutritious People standards recommend. Medical experts believe that this breastfeeding reduction increases pediatric costs dramatically, as children who do not breastfeed have been proven to be more susceptible in general to a variety of diseases that have contributed to increased rates of infant mortality.
Healthy People were nursed as kids
Dr. William Dietz of the CDC told Medpage Today that "Meeting the national breastfeeding initiation goal is a good accomplishment in women's and children's overall health, however we have more work ahead". As a mere 43 percent of infants are nevertheless breastfeeding at 6 months and 22 percent at one year - per the CDC study - The United States truly does have work to do.
Breastfeeding pariahs
State-to-state breastfeeding rates were tracked by a 2007 CDC Healthy People study. To give an idea of the degree of variance, 90 percent of infants in Utah were found to breastfed regularly, when only 53 percent enjoyed such bonding time with mom in Mississippi. The stance state governments take on breastfeeding plays an important role within the CDC study. At the time of the study, 21 states still had no breastfeeding-friendly facilities, and the very same states (plus others) tended to have hospitals with lower ratings for quality of maternity care and infant feeding instruction. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there has been improvement on the legislative level since the 2007 CDC study, however there remain states that do not have specific laws guarding the right to breastfeed outside the home in an area other than a cramped restroom. Speaking of disdain, so long as a popular website like Facebook takes a stance against breastfeeding photos on decency grounds, America is in puritanical trouble. Such animosity toward nursing works for the bottom line of infant formula makers, too. Thankfully, some right-thinking people brought the Nestlé boycott to bear when the mega business went too far.
The price of not nursing is high
According to Dr. Melissa Bartick of Harvard Medical School and Arnold Reinhold of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, the growing absence of colostrum-rich breast milk in children's diets has caused pediatric costs to skyrocket. "$3.6 billion might be saved if breastfeeding rates were increased to levels of the Healthy People objectives," according to Bartick and Reinhold's report in Pediatrics journal. That's 2001 info. Updated, the author's study bears even more sobering numbers. Bartick and Reinhold found that if children 6 months and under were fed breast milk exclusively at the CDC Nutritious People level of 90 percent, American families could save "$13 billion per year and prevent an excess of 911 deaths, nearly all of which would be in infants".
Infant formula is considered an acceptable option by some, but the inferiority of ingredients (when compared with breast milk) and overall expense makes it a truly inferior substitute. There may be medical reasons why a mother can't breastfeed, in which case formula is OK, even if it is too costly for Americans who need cash. Needing payday loans for infant formula powder is not a good place to be, financially.
Additional reading
Pediatrics
pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-1616v1
CDC Breast Feeding Report Card
cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/BreastfeedingReportCard2010.pdf
Medpage Today
medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/22162
National Conference of State Legislatures
ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=14389
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_milk
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