SIDA asked me to contribute this to a meeting held in Brasilia to examine breastfeeding in the context of the working mother–one of several meetings held leading up the Innocenti Meeting. I disappointed some colleagues with a rather pessimistic point of view–I had just been at the International Labor Organisation, and was told by three different groups that they were opposed to maternity protection measures. My later papers on this topic have thought the issues through better. But this one presents fascinating data relating breastfeeding rates in Sweden to the times when maternity protection measures were improved.

See this paper here.

 

Image: Michelangelo XVI century 

Breastfeeding and working women : thinking strategically.
Version révisée d’un document de référence écrit pour une conférence-atelier de l’UNICEF Travail, femmes et allaitement Brasilia, 26 Mai-ler Juin 1990

Chaque femme est différente. Pour allaiter de la façon qui convient le mieux à sa situation, ses besoins peuvent aller d’un allaitement exclusif au-delà de la limite des six mois que les nutritionnistes ont tendance à recommander, jusqu’à, dans de rares cas, aucun allaitement.

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