A good diet is valuable for successful breast-feeding as well as mother good health. Although the mother’s body is able to produce milk ever if she is malnourished. If she does not eat well lactation will begin to deplete her own bodily stores. This can leave mother fatigued which will eventually affect her supply. With a few exceptions mother’s nutritional requirements during pregnancy and the breast feeding months are
similar. While breast feeding mothers have an increased need for fluids, calories, protein, calcium and vitamins. Mothers require about five hundred to eight hundred more calories (depending on the mothers weight and height) while breastfeeding than before pregnancy or about two hundred more calories than during parental months. Avoid calories from Junk foods, highly processed foods and refined sugar.
Lactating mothers, also have an increased need for calcium inadequate calcium in mothers diet can lead to osteoporosis (brittleness and fragility of the bone) later in life. Good sources of calcium include milk and diary products, tofu, leafy dark green vegetable, sesame seed, black strap molasses and branches tea.
Mothers should eat three nutritious well balanced meals a day and one or two nutritious between meals as snacks, mother can meet all their nutritional needs. Their body should be their guide. They should eat to satisfy hunger and drink to satisfy thirst.
Incidences and Influence of Breast Feeding Decision
Studies of demographic parameter in breast-feeding have been essentially cross-sectional in nature and have queried socio-economic influence on the incidence of breast feeding (Martiness, 1980). These reports have generally concluded that the trend toward breast-feeding is most pronounced in the higher socio-economic groups. More recently the greatest increase in the incidence of breast feeding has been in less educated and lower income groups through the proportion still remains small (Martiness, 1981). This grading is consistent with the assumption of downward drift of cultural ends and may explain class differences among more psycho-socially oriented research (Yerng, Pennel, Levng Hall 1981). However, the assumption of cultural trends does not describe how that trend influences the choice of individual women. Only when the combined influence of socio-economic and psychosocial predictors of breastfeeding is delineated. Can this decision making process be fully explained?
Socio-Economic Class or Status Influence
Obviously, not all people have the same an out of money, prestige or social influence. These are desired by almost everyone but are unequally distributed in any population. It is possible to rank the people in a society in terms of their income, prestige, education or power. A person’s rank based on standards is her socio-economic status. when we speak of “status” we usually mean socio-economic status (Spenler 1976).
Spencer went on to state that people are more often classified much more loosely on the basis of only one or two standards usually income alone and usually into a few categories such as “upper class” “middle class” and “lower class”. We may define a social class as a set of people with similar social economic status. most of the times the term socio-economic status and social stratification refers to hierarchical organization of the society based on the unequal distribution of power, wealth and prestige among various groups and individuals in the society.
In the society, some people enjoy more resources and privileges than others. Whereas some members of society receive good and high level education enter a profession, live on a beautiful low residential areas, enjoy holidays oversees, drive big and expensive cars, feed well or even commit crimes and are assisted to escape justice, others with difficulty are even unable to obtain primary education, get a good job no matter how poorly paid, find a living place in the slow or ghetto areas and face the full weight of the low privileges between individuals or social groups is a reflection of social inequality which finds expression in the hierarchical organization of society into distinct social groups.
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