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Q: Breastfeeding vs. formula in China?

Breast milk has been shown in a bunch of studies to be the more nutritious option for babies, but there seems to be a big push toward formula in China nonetheless, particularly in HK until recently. Does anyone know how common is breastfeeding in China as compared to other places? Is formula considered the more "modern" method for well-off Chinese parents? 

11 years 2 weeks ago in  Health & Safety - China

 
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Rate of breastfeeding only in the first 6 months after birth is 27%, while the world average is 38%~39%.

Sorry i don't know about the second question.

 

http://health.sohu.com/20121003/n354292437.shtml

Scandinavian:

I doubt this is accurate information.

 

You would have at least 3 categories

1. Exclusively breastfed

2. Partly breastfed

3. Never breastfed

 

I'll bet your numbers are for group 2, and if you had numbers for 1 & 3 comparing China to the developed world there would be a massive gap.

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I talked to bunnybuns, and we both agreed that our kids aren't getting artificial milk.

Scandinavian:

then you also have to remember to agree that she cannot honor the one month of bedtime after giving birth.

to up her milk-production she needs to be active and eat a normal diet.

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Hulk:

Yep, we talked about that.

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ChickMag:

lucky babies, getting to suck on jugs all day long

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Personally, I have found formula to be a little sweet for my tastes...

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While I accept that breast-feeding is better and that many Chinese need to re-visit the whole idea of breast feeding I do hope they don't go to the quite ridiculous level we now have in the UK with what I call the baby-feeding nazis. It has got to the stage where incredible pressure is placed upon mothers-to-be to breast feed by almost everyone in society. 

There are many reasons why a mother cannot breast feed, many of them medical, some of them to do with work and others plain sociological but at the end of the day it's her choice, not the choice of the rest of society.

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  Don't know what the trends are but breast feeding is the way to go. Let a mother's immune system guide the growth of her child for a good year or two. Don't trust powdered milk in China, it's likely to be cut with heroin, though i've heard that cocaine is also commonly used. Personally i'm happy to drink the stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but my kid ain't havin' none of it. But your question was really about Chinese trends, and I think they are to breast-feed if possible, and to import powdered-milk, if affordable. (The monetary system sucks. It makes people animals. Healthy food for a child is something this world is, surprise, surprise, quite capable of offering).

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I have always heard that boobs are much better for the baby. But if the baby is a boy and has the bottle more, than maybe when he is an adult he won't think about breasts all day long, instead he will think about having a beer, soda, or any other drink in a bottle.

GuilinRaf:

 

Um, may;be  not.////

I am a 45 year old man and if I had to choose between breast feeding milk and a bottle of beer, I would choose the breast...

P.S. and I HATE the taste of milk.....

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I HAVE BABY FORMULA SHIPPED FROM THE US  BREAST FEEDING CAN BE MORE BETTER OR WORST DEPENDS ON THE WOMAN

GuilinRaf:

"...more better..."?

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