Doctors want pupils to be taught about breastfeeding
Pupils should be taught about the importance of breastfeeding in schools, 主要な children’s doctors have said.
“Familiarity with breastfeeding” should be part of personal, health and social education in schools, the 王室の College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said.
A new position paper on breastfeeding, 解放（する）d at the start of World Breastfeeding Week, also calls on 大臣s to 立法者 for breastfeeding breaks and 施設s suitable in all workplaces for breastfeeding or 表明するing breast milk.
The College said that the UK has “little to celebrate” ーに関して／ーの点でs of its 記録，記録的な／記録する on breastfeeding.
It said that Britain has one of the lowest 率s of breastfeeding in Europe and criticised data collection surrounding breastfeeding.
The RCPCH called on the 政府 to 復帰させる the UK-wide 幼児 Feeding 調査する, which was cancelled in 2015.
Data from 2010 show that only 34% of babies are receiving some breast milk at six months of age compared with 49% in the US and 71% in Norway . At a year this 人物／姿／数字 fell to 0.5%.
人物／姿／数字s for England in 2015/16 show that while almost three-４半期/4分の1s of mothers started breastfeeding, this fell to 43.2% when ba bies were between six and eight weeks old.
The 文書 示唆するs that social stigma is at heart of UK’s low breastfeeding 率.
Societal 態度s may lead to women feeling uncomfortable about breastfeeding in public or in the presence of peers and family members.
一方／合間, maternal 関心 about whether an 幼児 is receiving 十分な milk may result in 増強 from friends, family and health professionals, to “補足（する）” with 決まり文句／製法 which 土台を崩すs maternal milk 生産／産物, the RCPCH said.
New RCPCH 指導／手引 also 最高潮の場面s the health 利益s of breastfeeding for both mother and child, 同様に as the cost 貯金 to families and health services.
The College advises that mothers should be encouraged and supported to breastfeed 排他的に for up to six months and solid food should be introduced from six months, ideally と一緒に breastfeeding, to 確実にする the 幼児 has 適する 栄養.
一方／合間, mothers may experience practical problems in 設立するing breastfeeding, and fail to 接近 or receive 適する practical support.
The RCPCH has also called on the NHS in England and the Welsh 政府 to 確実にする all maternity services 達成する and 持続する the UNICEF Baby Friendly 率先 accreditation ? this 必要物／必要条件 is 現在／一般に met by all maternity 部隊s in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A 投票 by the website Mumsnet of 1,030 mothers 設立する that three-４半期/4分の1s said they believed that there was “too much 強調 on telling women why they should breastfeed, and not enough on supporting them to breastfeed”.
The 調査する identified a number of 推論する／理由s why mothers stopped breastfeeding by six to eight weeks 含むing: problems with latching, 関心s over the 量 of milk 存在 produced, 苦痛, exhaustion, difficulties with 表明するing milk and 関心s over the baby’s 負わせる.
