The successful Red Cross Health Plan of Alcora closes the year with the Online Session of the Pediatrician Doctor Lupe Palau on the support that breastfeeding mothers need
JAVIER NOMDEDEU / ALCORA
Pediatrician Lupe Palau Fuster, Red Cross volunteer, Master in Advanced Lactation Management, and Lactation Consultant. Teacher who collaborated in the MAMARE Association, carried out a successful online session with the title The support that nursing mothers need within the Health Plan promoted by the Red Cross L’Alcora.
Precisely the motto of the World Breastfeeding Week of this year 2021 has been Protect breastfeeding, a commitment of all and all. Breastfeeding, as the expert stated, is teamwork. “Although traditionally breastfeeding is considered to be in the domain of the mother, when supported by the partner, family, institutions and society, breastfeeding rates increase. We need equitable social norms regarding gender, such as teamwork between mothers and their partners for successful breastfeeding, as well as balancing paid and unpaid work. ”
Breastfeeding is a natural and intimate act, but at the same time, it needs accompaniment and support, nuance Palau.
Among many other aspects, he stated “Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon, a symbiosis of instinct and culture. It is the cultural aspect that gives it a special vulnerability: scientific advances, sociological changes, lack of interest in health, powerful commercial interests and institutional and governmental blindness. have been on the verge of making it disappear in the last century. Today the path of breastfeeding is not always easy. Many women have never seen breastfeeding before becoming mothers. The health system has replaced, partially, and with special deficiencies In the emotional area, the training and support functions of new mothers. Professional support is very important, but it is part of the social whole that surrounds the mother and the child; breastfeeding cannot be approached solely as a medical matter. it is the whole of society that must promote breastfeeding from a broader cultural perspective.
This lack of role models and support in the initial moments or when difficulties arise, together with the simplicity of giving a bottle, which has become the cultural norm, has a decisive influence on early abandonment. But just in this first stage, abandonment is usually accompanied by a feeling of failure, since breastfeeding prevails in the collective imagination as the ideal way to feed a young baby. Mothers need encouragement, not coercion, and the distance between the two may be minimal. And the mother may feel frustrated, lonely, and also guilty. “
Palau explained that it is not unusual that, once breastfeeding is established, the mother who wishes to continue enjoying it with her child for more than a few weeks, finds obstacles and misunderstanding in her family, socio-occupational and / or health environment. The pressures are aimed at her being socially and labor-active soon, to quickly regain her pre-pregnancy body and for her child to emancipate from maternal care quickly.
He added “there is an incoherence between the image of motherhood, on the one hand, idealized and on the other, discredited, which does not find a social network to support itself. It is educated in an ideal of motherhood in which precisely this experience is made invisible: Visible women- Invisible mothers. To real and human motherhood, less pink is necessary to give it the social space it deserves. Lactation associations and mutual support groups do an impressive job. They replace the network of women that traditionally accompanied the new mother. They replace Also, to a large extent, the role of health personnel who should help consolidate a happy breastfeeding, since many mothers complain of having received contradictory information and demand adequately trained health professionals.
support groups should not be aimed at replacing but rather complementing the health services and the supports of each mother’s family and social environment “.
RED CROSS L’ALCORA HEALTH PLAN AND THANKS
The reviewed and successful session was the last of the interesting and participatory Health Plan of the Red Cross l’Alcora, thanking as a balance of 2021 all the selfless collaboration that all the professionals in the field of health have made and also the institutions, entities, partners and also volunteers.
In addition to this Health Plan, the Red Cross has worked throughout the year and will continue working and acting with great desire and enthusiasm to continue helping all of society and especially the most vulnerable people.
In collaboration with:
the Ministry of Education, Research, Culture and Sport.
Valencian government
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