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Breastfeeding Older Children by Sinnott, Ann is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Breastfeeding Older Children about?

Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfeeding promotion measures. While initiation rates have improved, duration rates at a few weeks or months after birth still lag behind the World Health Organization's recommendation that breastfeeding - for all children, in both developed and developing worlds - should continue for at least two years. Behind the figures, there is however an inverse reality. Today, increasing numbers of women in the industrialized world challenge social convention and breastfeed their children well beyond WHO guidelines. How widespread is this surprising - many would say shocking - phenomenon? Is it Nature's way or is it an unhealthy practice? Do mothers prolong breastfeeding for their own pleasure? Is it - as some say - a form of sexual abuse? Are women being overly controlling, coercing children into continuing because they wish their children to remain dependent, or are they meeting an innate child need? Does long-term breastfeeding impact negatively on child physical and emotional health, or does it have a positive effect? Do mothers pay a price? How doe

Who reads Breastfeeding Older Children?

Author

Sinnott, Ann

Publisher

Free Association Books; Brand: Free Association Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781853439391

Category

health

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Medical, Psychology

Rating

4.3 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14