A few days ago we told you that the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP) published a report in favor of breastfeeding in older children, with the intention of explaining why it is advisable to continue breastfeeding beyond 6 months and arrive, if possible , up to 2 years, when the child's immune system works much better than in the first months.
Well, today we bring you a piece of information that demonstrates what happens when, as a society, we stop looking at our navel and stop feeling the most important in the world, or those who do everything right. The National Association for Child Development (NACD) reveals in its feeding protocol for children from 0 to 2 years that In U.S.A. The average breastfeeding of babies is 3 months, while The worldwide measure, taking all children from all countries, is 4.2 years.
Only 3 months?
That's right, in the US, as in many other western countries of the so-called first world, many people believe that breastfeeding is what is given to the baby until he can start eating. As it does not start until 4-6 months, because they give them the breast or bottle until then. A 3 month average breastfeeding is a very low figure which shows that those who breastfeed their babies will not do so for long. Come on, that arriving at 12 months as indicated by the American Academy of Pediatrics or at 2 years, as indicated by the WHO, should be almost a mistake: "But you breastfeed your 2 year old son?" "Oh, well, it's true ... I hadn't noticed."
Breastfeeding 4.2 years!
On the contrary we have to the world average is 4.2 years, a brutal figure, because it is a long time, which not many Spanish women come to. I thought it could be a typo of the report, but it has been published for a while and in that case the figure would have been corrected. In addition, I have seen the same data on other sites (here for example, at the end of the document). I guess they have babies from towns, villages, tribes and areas of the world that we don't have, precisely because of that, because we are from the first world and we consider that good is what we do.
But no, we have gone from modern, I am very afraid, with a totally stressful and enslaving lifestyle that we take for granted because it offers us means and money to later spend on things that we have been told that we need and that, for this lifestyle, many times we do need reality. The problem is that so modern, babies, who have nothing updated and who ask for food and almost continuous contact, they are the ones who lose out. Losing? Of course, they have gone from breastfeeding more than 3 years to taking it 3 months.
