母乳餵哺 今日: 0|主題: 85707

（本帖屬個人意見，但絕對不含任何歧視成份。）

好多父母/祖父母都覺得『唔餵人 奶冇問題吖，我個仔/女都好健康！』尤其是我地呢個generation都係食配
方奶大，所以自己都覺得冇問題。

Dr Newman 今日在Facebook寫的。希望大家可以睇睇。

唔好再比奶 粉廣告商騙了。奶 粉唔係亦都唔會同人
奶一樣咁好。有好多兒科醫生都覺得配 方奶冇問題，但佢地對母乳嘅認識又有幾多呢？

奶 粉嘅成份係標榜接近母乳。Facebook上有個comment形容得好貼切：『呢個講法只不過係等同企喺屋頂上話自己有幾咁接近個月亮』。

耐唔耐D奶 粉商就大賣廣告話加咗乜乜成份，令B B又聰明D又點點點。
咁食舊配方大嘅B B呢？咁冇咁聰明囖喎？同埋，加咗又真係聰明咗嗎？Dr Newman話，『不是奶
粉商資助的研究話冇證據顯示。』過多幾年，又會有奶 粉商話加咗D乜乜又會改善咗D乜乜，而果D乜東東不嬲都喺人 奶裡面搵到的。永無止境。因為奶 粉做唔到最好，永遠有得'improve'的。奶
粉商，只不過在做生意。

配 方奶喺processed food。點解大人都話食processed food唔好嘅同時，會選擇比B B食processed food 呢？

我真係好希望大家可以再三考慮，喺B B出生後努力餵哺母
乳。開頭時，大家都會遇到好多困難，但其實係有方法可以解決你嘅問題架。只要你識得搵support，搵人幫。有問題關於餵哺（B B含啜），就快D去健康院搵母乳姑娘教你。唔好等坐完月先去呀，越遲越難搞，會令你以為自己唔夠奶。

要知道，全世界只有約5%人唔夠奶。唔通你以為呢5%人集中在香港嗎？你要相信你嘅祖先。就係因為佢地有/夠奶，先至有我地嘅存在。人類進化係咁，所以表示你自己都會夠奶。

我由衷地希望各位媽媽/爸爸考慮母乳餵哺。尤其是就來當爸爸媽媽同懷孕中的媽媽。

以下係quote自Dr JackNewman嘅Facebook。

https://www.facebook.com/jack.newman.908

I am tired of hearing "My kidswere not breastfed and they are okay". True, they might be. Luckily humansare extremely adaptable, unlike some other mammals. A foal that does not getits mother’s colostrum will die of infection because horses, unlike humans, donot get antibodies through the placenta during the pregnancy and so need thecolostrum to protect them from bacteria and viruses. Many human babies do notget their mother’s colostrum and get formula instead and still survive. Thisdoesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
It is said that 75% of all children will have at least one ear infection by thetime they are three years old.
Paediatricians would consider this normal.But it’s not.
There is evidence that breastfeedingprotects against ear infections, though, of course, not 100%. There is no suchthing as 100% protection. Ear infections cause much suffering for both thechild who has it and the parents who take care of the child. Sometimes thereare long term effects such as recurrent or chronic infections that interferewith hearing and requiring surgery. Most parents would still say “my kid isokay” as long as the child does not have what the parent considers a serious,chronic disease such as diabetes.
It is important not to forget that the formulas of today are supposed to be farsuperior to what someone of 30 years old or 60 years old would have had astheir feedings (according to formula company marketing). When I was in medicalschool, commercial formulas were available but most people did not use them,probably because making up your own was much less expensive but “just as good”.These home made formulas usually used homogenized milk or evaporated milk, plusadded water plus corn syrup. These were felt at the time to be “just as good asbreastfeeding”. And yet, everyone today, even those who say that breastfeedingis not better, would agree that cow's milk plus water plus corn syrup is not asgood as the formulas of today. In other words,
mothers were told nonsense and because thenonsense often came from a paediatrician, mothers naturally believed itbecause paediatricians know about infant feeding; "it’s theirspeciality".
But let’s look some more with regard to formula.
Every few years, formulas get “improved”. The most recent marketableimprovement has been adding long chained polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA andARA) to the formula. This “improvement”, accompanied by a huge and shamelesslymisleading campaign, is supposed result in the baby’s being more intelligentand seeing better. Does it? We don’t know.
Studies not financed by the formulacompanies say no.
But let’s say the DHA and ARA do infact make the baby more intelligent and improve his vision. Does that not meanthat until early in the 2000s when the DHA and ARA were added to formulas allbabies fed formula were fed milk that interfered with the intellectualdevelopment? "New and improved formulas" come out every so often. Inthe 1970s, taurine (an amino acid present in breastmilk) was added so thatbabies’ vision would be better. What about before the 1970s when babies did notget taurine? In the 1990s, babies could now get formulas with nucleotides whichare supposed to increase immunity. But what about the artificially fed babiesbefore the 1990s? They didn’t get nucleotides. The question comes down to: are theseadditions important to the baby’s health or not? If not, we are being sold abill of goods. If yes, we have compromised the health of hundreds of millionsof babies. And we arestill doing so, because formula is still missingcomponents important to protect and maintain the baby’s health. Wait for it, in the next few years,something present in breastmilk will be added to formulas that has always beenabsent from them and a new marketing campaign will convince millions of parents(and pediatricians) that this new formula is better than previous ones andcloser still to breastmilk.