For Nicole Steineger, breast-feeding her three children has been a natural choice.
It’s convenient, too.
“It goes with me where I go,” said Steineger, whose youngest child is a year old. “If I’m in the middle of an aisle at Target and my baby needs to eat, I can do that. I don’t have to prepare anything.”
Organizations including the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department and La Leche League International, are using this week — World Breast-Feeding Week — to raise awareness of breast-feeding’s health benefits.
“It’s a public health issue,” said Jane Tuttle, a La Leche League leader in Lawrence. “I think it’s something doctors should encourage. Doctors don’t hesitate to tell people to lose weight or quit smoking. They shouldn’t hesitate to tell mothers to breast-feed.”
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Bingo, Janet.
It's absolutely a family's right to choose what method they use to feed their infants. But it is also absolutely the obligation of the physician to inform them of the risk of this choice.
If I smoke, or eat at Mcdonald's, or drive withoutr a seat belt, I know that I am taking a risk. To withhold information because it might make me feel guilty is irresponsible and unethical.
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