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Q: Why don't Chinese mothers breastfeed?
28% breastfeed in China, compared to USA's 78%
History: Mao told his people to spawn progeny, so he could win conflicts by the feudal levy system. It backfired, and now there are too many people.
Recent history: The CCP instituted one child policy. It backfired, now there are still too many people, but the professionals in the city (the government class) is getting too old. So they instituted radical policies to stem the tide...
Present day:
1 ) You go to a hospital as a pregnant Chinese woman, you will be put under significant pressure to undergo a C-section birth. More money for the hospital, slightly lower death risk/liability, and who cares about the side effects on the mother? 80% C-section rates, 11-14% global average.
2 ) After a C-section poorly performed with minimal painkillers (NO painkillers for those 'bad' mothers who want natural birth!), the mother will be bedridden for weeks. After 2 weeks of no breastfeeding, milk production stops permanently (until next pregnancy at least).
3 ) Baby is hooked on milk formula, a physical dependency more real than drug addiction. Ad the gov't controls the price.
4 ) Poor countryside people can afford a house and car, but somtimes forgo having kids altogether, because of the price.
5 ) CCP does nothing about all the toxic formula popping up. Could they be behind it? Perhaps.
6 ) Importers of foreign milk get hit with every import restriction the gov't can think of. Legal import becomes next to impossible.
Does the CCP want to kill your baby? Only if you are a citizen.
I've been told that hospitals and baby formula companies tell new mothers that the powdered stuff is healthier and better for the baby that the real thing.
I don't know if it's true but it wouldn't surprise me.
coineineagh:
The importance of breastfeeding is understated. Reccommended period gets cut from a year to 6 months, to 6 weeks, and some hospitals even advise 3 weeksthen reccommend formula.
Scandinavian:
Yup. We participated in a pre-birth seminar at the hospital, that was sponsored by a Aussi formula company.
Breastfeeding is a selfless act and a huge sacrifice (biting) and done out of pure love for a child. There's your answer.
Simple, the majority of Chinese women have c-sections rather than natural childbirth, so idiotic but don't get my started on that. Many women after a c - section need their stitches to heal and it is very painful to hold a baby that close to the stomach where the operation happened so that's why most of them if not all, bottle feed. There's your answer.
History: Mao told his people to spawn progeny, so he could win conflicts by the feudal levy system. It backfired, and now there are too many people.
Recent history: The CCP instituted one child policy. It backfired, now there are still too many people, but the professionals in the city (the government class) is getting too old. So they instituted radical policies to stem the tide...
Present day:
1 ) You go to a hospital as a pregnant Chinese woman, you will be put under significant pressure to undergo a C-section birth. More money for the hospital, slightly lower death risk/liability, and who cares about the side effects on the mother? 80% C-section rates, 11-14% global average.
2 ) After a C-section poorly performed with minimal painkillers (NO painkillers for those 'bad' mothers who want natural birth!), the mother will be bedridden for weeks. After 2 weeks of no breastfeeding, milk production stops permanently (until next pregnancy at least).
3 ) Baby is hooked on milk formula, a physical dependency more real than drug addiction. Ad the gov't controls the price.
4 ) Poor countryside people can afford a house and car, but somtimes forgo having kids altogether, because of the price.
5 ) CCP does nothing about all the toxic formula popping up. Could they be behind it? Perhaps.
6 ) Importers of foreign milk get hit with every import restriction the gov't can think of. Legal import becomes next to impossible.
Does the CCP want to kill your baby? Only if you are a citizen.
Could you please provide source of your quoted ‘28% breastfeed in China, compared to USA's 78%’ ?
As per internet search, they seem mismatched between ‘Ever Breastfed (of USA)’ and ‘Exclusive Breastfeeding (of China)’
For USA, according to http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/2014breastfeedingreportcard.pdf
Ever Breastfed : 79.2%
Exclusive breastfeeding at 3 months: 40.7%
Exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months: 18.8%
For China, according to http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/5/12-111310/en/
Ever Breastfed: 98.3%
Exclusive Breastfeeding 3-4 months: 29.1%
Exclusive Breastfeeding 5-6 months: 13.6%
Lord_hanson:
It is very difficult to get good statistical data in China. Most people are trained in school to say what they are supposed to say as opposed to what they think. China is also a big country with different cultures in different areas, massive differences in incomes too. Whilst America is also a big country and it does have differences they are not as vast as China's. In saying all that I would like to see accurate and credible statistics myself, sadly the government here commonly fabricates statistics.
WhyHowWhen:
@Lord_hanson, the given links are of CDC and WHO..
Atleast the comparition should be done under same 'head', so maybe OP can check his source/s of 28% vs 78% for same thing (or correct it if mistakenly written)
When you see stories like this one here for example popping up fairly regularly.....
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36346205
Where crap quality, or fake, or adulterated milk that makes kids sick is being sold, and the story covered up you have to wonder why everyone who can isn't breast feeding.
royceH:
Thanks, Stiggs, for the link. But the BBC is blocked in China, so I can't open it.
And best that the populace can't open it either lest they get to thinking...
Stiggs:
I would copy and paste it but don't know if that would be cool with ECC.
if you did want to read it though you can see it here....
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/
Someone C&P'd it.
coineineagh:
Chinese mothers don't bottle-feed out of vanity or herd mentality. they are physically incapable after doing the C-section, and being bedridden for weeks. Only the most determined mothers still have milk production active after recovery.
royceH:
Stiggs; Ta for the link but I won't bother. I get the gist and I really don't need any more negative China stuff...brain's full of it already.
To be seen to be be using one of nature's gifts to feed your baby would be to publicly declare that you are too poor for the (coerced) alternative. Or that you are a free thinker. Neither of these declarations will hold you in good stead, and could even have serious repercussions.
