Have been reading some of the different conversations on bf, and now I feel that it is time to tell how it is in bf-utopia
(and just so I have said this too: Just because we are good on this bf thing doesn't meen that we are the country of perfect kids and mums,- Norway plummeted on the Piza-qustionare this year again!)
For starters: Yes it is true that 98% of norwegian moms bf until we start the babies on solids between 4 and 6 months. Here bf is reagrded as the natural thing to do, and that there is a "choise" is close to impossible to grasp. The small persentage that doesn't bf are in general prohibited from it, due to baby beeing premature or other physical reasons.
I think maby the reason for the all over agreeement that bf is what we do, is because we have a wery standarised gowerment-controlled healthsystem, so that all doctors, midwives and every other person working with new mothers have the same approach. This means that we talk about bf already when pregnant at our monthly check-ups, and that we get proper guidance and help already at the hospital after giving birth. Every hospital in Norway also hand out a information-pamflet on bf to every mother.
Beacuse of all the information and focus on bf, "every mother" knows that bf is not just best for nutrition, but also is the best way to get back in shape after giving birth, keeping your baby healthy, bonding with your baby and naturally becomming mum - best person in the whole of babys world (this is of course beacuse of the wonderfull smell of breastmilk that one carries around)
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une · 09/07/2008 21:20
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