At the best of times, 60% of women who want to breastfeed aren’t able to or they run into challenges that force them to stop sooner than they’d hoped. Now, almost every form of face-to-face support that new mothers can normally turn to has disappeared.
. “I nursed my first baby and really liked the opportunity it gave us to bond,” she remembers. The experience hadn’t been without its challenges, but with help, she worked her way through. “I knew breastfeeding could be hard, so I planned ahead this time, to make sure I’d have the right support network from the start.” Her parents had their plane tickets booked, she had back-up care arranged for her toddler, and she’d identified a local lactation consultant who did home visits.
On maternity wards, nurses have a nickname for breast milk: liquid gold. Mother’s milk is rich in the protein, sugar, fat and antibodies babies need to survive and thrive in their first six months. Formula manufacturers haveto replicate its powerful properties. But just as mining a precious metal is hard, it takes time, effort, and support to establish, build, and maintain a supply of breast milk.
“People think, ‘It’s breastfeeding—you just put the baby to the breast and away they go. It’s no big deal.’ But it is a big deal,” explains Diane Spatz. As a professor of perinatal nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and a nurse scientist for the lactation program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she’s seen first-hand how important it is for new mothers to get immediate help.
She asked on several occasions for follow-up consultations, and even stayed in the hospital longer than needed just to be able to see someone. But nobody came. “I left the hospital in tears, because I knew that was my last opportunity to get in-person help.”that new mothers can normally turn to—breastfeeding groups, in-home visits from trained specialists—has disappeared.
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