The images from Katrina play like a slide show in our minds, with the frame freezing just a little bit longer than usual when we see a father holding up his infant and saying, “She needs food!”
As the political football gets tossed around about how the response was bungled, this much is true: The dehydrated baby is one sad sight that could have absolutely, positively been prevented. Every breastfeeding mother watching television who saw that child undoubtedly said to herself, “This poor baby would not be starving now if her mom was nursing her.”
Expectant parents hear a litany of “what's best” advice regarding their newborns, but sometimes it takes something as monumental as a natural disaster to bring home what is really important. Not only is breastfeeding a nutritional bonanza for an infant that will have lifelong ramifications, it is the most convenient and healthy way a mother can feed her child no matter what is going on in the world around her.
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