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  • What’s the Right Way to Feed and Protect Babies in a Humanitarian Crisis?
    Annie commented on the article | almost 3 years ago
    What’s the Right Way to Feed and Protect Babies in a Humanitarian Crisis?

    Thanks so much for the document...the links at the end are especially informative as well. I agree with you on the Rosin article, it was the idea that women are "shackled" to their infants that turned me off...something about that choice of words.

  • What’s the Right Way to Feed and Protect Babies in a Humanitarian Crisis?
    Annie commented on the article | almost 3 years ago
    What’s the Right Way to Feed and Protect Babies in a Humanitarian Crisis?

    I came across this series after reading Hanna Rosin's recent article in The Atlantic ("The Case against Breastfeeding" found here:http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/case-against-breastfeeding). While the article deals explicitly with breastfeeding in the developed world, it was interesting when compared to the points raised here. Rosin speaks from a space in which women have the choice whether to exclusively breastfeed, pump, use formula, etc. This is not to say that issues of privacy and support do not arise in the developed world, and maybe the two can't be compared, but the differences are striking. The issue of breastfeeding in crisis is one that is so rarely addressed (aside from issues surrounding formula) but is obviously of great importance. You make amazing points, but I was wondering what was being done about it? Do you know of any camps for displaced persons that provide lactation support? (I'm not meaning this as a challenge at all, I just really have no knowledge of the kind of support offered--if any--to mothers in camps for displaced persons).

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