Breastfeeding: It is a family affairs and a state affairs

■ Xiang Danping

After a woman becomes a mother, it is an unavoidable issue to breast milk or breastfeeding powder. From August 1st to 7th this year is the 31st World Breastfeeding Week, and the topic of breastfeeding has been widely concerned. According to statistics, in 2021, the baby's pure mother breastfeeding rate in China was only 29.2%, which means that about two -thirds of the current children in China did not fully enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding, not only lower than the "Chinese Children's Development Outline" The expected target of 50%of the bidding in 2020 is also lower than the world average.

Breast milk is the best natural food for babies. Breastfeeding feeds the health of mother and baby. Many scientific research has long proven many benefits of breastfeeding. Data also shows that except for 5%of mothers, breastfeeding is unable to achieve breastfeeding due to breast development or hormones. About 95%of mothers can achieve pure breastfeeding. So why is the breastfeeding rate of our country not high?

Breastfeeding sounds very simple. In fact, it is very hard. During the breastfeeding process, the mother must face many pressures and difficulties: due to the feeding of the night, many mothers are interrupted and sleeping. Objectively, it is difficult to adhere to pure breastfeeding for 6 months and continue breast milk for more than two years. During the breastfeeding process, mothers will encounter less milk, milk increase, nipple cracked or inflammation, breast swelling, back milk failure, etc. The series of specific problems; a few women will also experience postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and even postpartum obsessive -compulsive disorder in the postpartum breastfeeding stage ... Moreover, the success of breastfeeding is closely related to the child's own factors and family atmosphere. In addition, too crazy formula milk powder marketing is also a major cause of breastfeeding. Without 1/5 of the world's Chinese infants and young children, it has supported the current 1/3 of the milk powder market in the world. This is a kind of abnormality.

The theme of the World Breastfeeding Week this year is "Breastfeeding Promotion, Health Education First". As a word, breastfeeding has long overflowed with a part of the private field and a part of public policy and social civilization. The higher breastfeeding rate is considered to be a measuring indicator of the level of social modernization. important meaning. Therefore, the responsibility of breastfeeding must not only be pushed to the novice mothers to bear it alone, but requires the common support and sharing of the family and the whole society. Studies have found that Dad's participation plays a very important role in successful breastfeeding and breastfeeding mothers. The work unit and society also provide multiple support for breastfeeding, such as formulating the policy of supporting breastfeeding in the workplace; training knowledge training for employees; setting up mother -in -child rooms; allowing female employees to have elastic working hours or home office office. Wait for them to feed their children; incorporate inclusive care in the basic public services, encourage conditional employers to provide welfare childbirth services; expand the coverage of maternity insurance, improve the fertility allowance system, explore the maternity subsidy system; create to create; Family friendly workplace. Code the marketing behavior of breastfeeding supplies through compulsory regulations.

In fact, breast milk is still a simple choice, nor is it a simple matter. In November 2021, the "Breastfeeding Promotion Action Plan (2021-2025)" jointly issued by the 15 departments including the National Health and Health Commission and other 15 departments stated that by 2025, the core knowledge of breastfeeding at the mother and baby family will reach more than 70%; the mother of the mother; the mother-in-law Baby family members' breastfeeding support rates have reached more than 80%; the proportion of medical institutions to set up breastfeeding consultation outpatient or pregnant nutrition clinics has continued to increase; the configuration rate of maternal and infant facilities in public places reaches more than 80%; Basically built a standardized maternal and infant facilities; the pure breastfeeding rate of pure breastfeeding has reached more than 50%in 6 months.

Zhang Yue, a researcher at the Maternal and Child Health Center of the China Disease Prevention and Control Center: "Breastfeeding is not just family affairs, but also state affairs. To this end, it is necessary to establish a breastfeeding work mechanism for government -led, departmental collaboration, and participation in the whole society." Indeed, we are encouraging women to firm In addition to the belief of breastfeeding, it is also necessary to jointly support breastfeeding in the whole society. The popularization of popular science propaganda for the creation of the mother and infant room, and the increase of breastfeeding. The exploration of family friendship policies and fertility costs of workplace needs to work, protect and promote a good society and family environment that is conducive to breastfeeding, and respects women's right to nurture freedom and protect women's feeding rights.

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