Isu derma susu ibu

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Actually topik ni dah agak suam suam kuku, tapi saya yang agak ketinggalan keretapi baru nak bagi ulasan.

Sebelum pregnant, saya memang tak pernah terfikir nak jatuh cinta pada breastfeeding. Malah kalau fikir pasal susu, mesti fikir nak bagi susu formula yang mana satu. Kuat betul pengaruh iklan susu formula kat televisyen kan. Mujur saya tergerak hati untuk membuat research dan berkenalan dengan komuniti ibu-ibu yang menyokong susu ibu.

Keazaman saja belum tentu menjamin kejayaan dalam penyusuan. Malah, perkataan kejayaan itu sendiri adalah berbeza mengikut individu. Setiap ibu yang mencuba untuk menyusukan anak mereka adalah ibu yang berjaya. Tidak kira selama mana tempoh penyusuan itu. Sekejap atau pun lama. Yang penting adalah usaha. Sekiranya tempoh penyusuan lebih singkat berbanding ibu-ibu lain, belajarlah menerima takdir dan redha dengan rezeki yang telah Allah berikan.

Kira-kira dua tahun lepas, sangat jarang saya mendengar sesiapa mencari ibu susuan atau cubaan mendermakan susu ibu di media-media sosial. Baru-baru ini, isu ini telah di highlight kan di dalam suratkhabar. Ini menunjukkan bahawa semakin ramai ibu-ibu di Malaysia yang mula sedar akan kebaikan susu ibu. Ramai yang rela mencari ibu susuan atau mencari stok susu dari ibu-ibu lain dari memilih susu formula.

Sebagaimana yang telah ditekankan dalam Islam, penyusuan susu ibu adalah tanggungjawab ibu bapa. Ia hendaklah dipenuhi sehingga anak tersebut berumur dua tahun. Bagaimana pun sekiranya tidak mampu dengan sebab kesihatan dan faktor yang relevan, diharuskan berhenti dengan keizinan daripada suami. Kemudian, sebaiknya suami perlu mencari ibu susuan bagi mencukupkan tempoh penyusuan anak tersebut sekiranya belum cukup 2 tahun.

Bagi saya, ini adalah satu perkembangan yang menarik dan sangat baik. Tetapi ini bukan bermaksud saya menyokong tindakan mengiklankan susu untuk di dermakan sewenang-wenangnya.

Perlulah diingat bahawa, susu yang diminum akan menjadi darah daging anak tersebut. Oleh itu, sebaiknya ibu bapa hendaklah mencari seseorang yang baik akhlaknya, sekiranya berkenalan di media sosial sekali pun. Ambil masa untuk mengenali budi bicara penderma. Kenali dirinya, keluarganya, kemudian barulah dinilai semula. Dan telah disebutkan bahawa haram bagi adik beradik susuan berkahwin. Sekiranya susu didermakan dengan sewenang-wenangnya, ditakuti, anak-anak yang menjadi adik beradik susuan ini tidak mengenali satu sama lain, dan kemungkinan mereka berkenalan dan saling jatuh cinta apabila telah besar kelak.

Saya kira, adalah satu tindakan yang bijak mencari ibu susuan bagi anak, bagaimana pun harus diingat, Islam telah memberikan garis panduan yang lengkap dalam melaksanakannya. Bagi yang ingin menjadi ibu susuan, jangan lupa dapatkan keizinan suami sebelum membuat sebarang tawaran.

Besarnya pahala kerana menderma sesuatu yang tidak boleh dibeli dengan wang ringgit.

Dermalah dengan berhemah..hehehe..

Daa

Usah terlalu ghairah

Wow..tajuk macam sencored je!

Sebenarnya saya pernah terdengar tentang herba tradisional yang dapat membantu pengeluaran susu ibu. Bahkan herba tradisional seperti kacip fatimah telah lama digunakan dalam perawatan pelbagai penyakit berkaitan dengan masalah kewanitaan. Walau pun tidak ada kajian klinikal yang menunjukkan bahawa ia benar-benar berkesan tetapi ramai wanita yang mengakui keberkesanannya.

Suka saya mengingatkan bahawa pengambilan herba tradisional mungkin boleh membahayakan kesihatan bayi dan juga buah pinggang anda. Kacip fatimah contohnya boleh mempunyai kesan detoks dimana toksin dari badan akan dikeluarkan bukan saja melalui air kencing, malah melalui susu ibu. Oleh itu, toksin dari tubuh anda mungkin tersalur ke tubuh kecil itu melalui penyusuan susu ibu. [Penerangan lanjut DISINI]

Tahukah anda bahawa pada suatu ketika dahulu, herba tradisional seperti kacip fatimah direbus dan air rebusannya diminum sebagai alternatif kepada ubatan. Bagaimana pun, pada masa ini terdapat banyak produk yang dipasarkan tidak menggunakan ekstrak dari herba-herba tetapi menggunakan serbuk yang diproses dari herba-herba yang terpilih. Pengambilan serbuk-serbuk ini yang diambil dalam bentuk minuman atau makanan boleh membebankan buah pinggang kita. Dalam satu jangka masa, ia boleh menyebabkan kerosakan pada buah pinggang.

Oleh itu, berhati-hatilah dalam pengambilan produk kesihatan terutamanya bagi ibu-ibu yang mengandung dan menyusukan anak. Janganlah terlalu ghairah apabila mendengar testimoni dan keberkesanan sesuatu jenis produk yang ditawarkan kepada anda. Sesungguhnya tiada apa yang lebih bernilai dari kesihatan kita. Sebelum mencuba apa-apa produk, lakukan sedikit kajian kerana terdapat banyak maklumat yang boleh didapati dihujung jari. Ia mungkin boleh menyelamatkan anda dan buah pinggang anda.

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Exclusive breastfeeding causes allergies

Call for U-turn on when to wean baby after warnings that exclusively breast-feeding for six months 'causes allergies'

Mothers are being warned that breastfeeding exclusively for six months may not be best for their babies and could put them at risk of allergies, food aversion and even obesity.

New research, which contradicts nearly a decade of official advice, says babies can be safely given solid foods at least eight weeks earlier in life.

British researchers have questioned guidelines issued in 2001 by the World Health Organisation – and supported by the Department of Health in 2003 – which told women to breastfeed for the first six months before giving solid foods to babies.

Based on WHO ‘global recommendations’, the aim was to help children worldwide avoid allergies and gastroenteritis.

But experts led by a paediatrician from University College London’s Institute of Child Health now claim the policy may actually have increased the risk of babies suffering allergies and iron deficiency. In addition, it could deter children from eating foods with bitter tastes that are good for them, fuelling the rise in obesity.

The new study in the British Medical Journal has sparked controversy, with the Royal College of Midwives claiming it can only benefit the baby food industry.

But other breastfeeding specialists welcomed the ‘common sense’ findings that many mothers instinctively follow despite feeling guilty about ignoring official advice.

The Department of Health last night stuck by the old guidelines, but admitted it has asked a panel of scientists to consider all the evidence and report back this year.

The new study says that when the WHO edict came out in 2001, many Western countries, including two out of three European nations, and the U.S. chose to ignore it.

 

But in 2003, Britain agreed to comply with the recommendation, which sprang from a review of 16 studies. They included seven from developing countries and the remainder from developed countries which were of ‘variable quality’.

The conclusion was that babies given breast milk alone for six months had fewer infections.

But another review of 33 studies carried out at the same time found ‘no compelling evidence’ against introducing solids at four to six months, known as weaning. There is growing evidence that breastfeeding alone for six months does not give babies all the nutrition they need, with some becoming iron deficient.

Babies fed on formula milk get extra iron, but they too are exposed to other drawbacks of late introduction of solid foods.

The new study says Swedish research links problems with tolerating gluten to a delay in eating it until six months – with the ideal wait being four to six months.

Professor Mary Fewtrell, who led the research team, said: ‘Perhaps the Department of Health might conclude similarly were it to commission an objective, independent review of the evidence.’

Clare Byam-Cook, an independent breastfeeding counsellor and former midwife, said: ‘The findings are long overdue because there is no evidence to show harm from introducing solids at three months or if the baby is over 12 pounds in weight.’

But Janet Fyle, policy adviser at the Royal College of Midwives, said changing official advice would be a retrograde step that ‘plays into the hands of the baby food industry’.

She said there was ‘irrefutable evidence’ that breast milk confers many health benefits on babies that last a lifetime. 

A spokesman for the Department of Health said: ‘Mothers who wish to introduce solids before six months should always talk to health professionals first.’

Read more: Daily Mail

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Komen;

 

Saya harap mereka turut menyatakan siapa yang menaja "research" tersebut. :)

Bagi saya, tak dapat dinafikan bahawa pada sesetengah bayi yang disusukan dengan susu ibu sepenuhnya masih lagi mengalami masalah sering dijangkiti penyakit, alahan dan masalah-masalah penyakit lain. Bagaimana pun, kita tidak boleh menafikan bahawa susu ibu adalah makanan terbaik untuk bayi pada peringkat awal kelahirannya. Ini kerana, Rasulullah sendiri disusukan hanya dengan susu ibu pada 2 tahun pertama kehidupannya (Please correct me if i'm wrong)

Saya mula memperkenalkan solid pada anak sulung saya ketika dia telah mencapai umur 6 bulan. Sehingga kini, dia tidak mengalami masalah berkaitan alahan atau memilih makanan. Makanan kegemarannya adalah lobak merah, kacang dan ikan bilis. Dia sangat suka nasi berbanding mi atau bihun. Manakala adik, saya perkenalkan dengan solid seminggu sebelum cukup umurnya enam bulan. Adik juga tidak mengalami apa-apa masalah alahan. Pada pendapat saya, sama ada seorang kanak-kanak itu memilih makanan atau tidak adalah bergantung pada bagaimana kita mula memperkenalkan makanan tersebut kepadanya. Kita tahu sejak azali lagi yang sesetengah sayur tu mempunyai rasa yang pahit, jadi mula perkenalkan sayur yang lebih manis dahulu kepada mereka. Persembahan juga penting untuk menarik minat mereka mencuba. 

 

Antara cara saya memperkenalkan sayur kepada anak saya adalah dengan membuat salad buah dan sayuran yang dicampur dengan mayonis. Rasa mayonis sedikit sebanyak akan menyembunyikan rasa sayur tersebut. Setelah mereka biasa dengan rasa sayur tersebut tentu tiada masalah bagi mereka mencuba sayur tersebut apabila dimasak dengan kaedah lain.

Saya berharap tiada ibu-ibu yang melatah dan rasa menyesal kerana menyusukan bayi mereka secara ekslusif dalam tempoh enam bulan pertama kehidupan si manja mereka. Untuk mengetahui bilakah waktu paling sesuai untuk memperkenalkan makanan separa pepejal kepada bayi, pastikan anda mengenalpasti tanda-tanda yang ditunjukkan oleh bayi anda. Ini adalah kerana setiap bayi adalah berbeza.

Breast-Feeding: Not Just for Women?

In September, Europe's highest court ruled that Spanish dads are entitled to “breast-feeding leave.”

Read more: Breastfeeding not just for women

Sengaja saya besarkan pernyataan di atas. Saya rasa Malaysia adalah sebuah negara yang banyak ketinggalan dalam penjagaan hak asasi wanita. Selain dari cuti bersalin yang cuma 60 hari berbanding kebanyakan negara yang memperuntukkan 90 hari cuti bersalin (Check - Maternity leave around the world).Kebanyakan syarikat di Malaysia juga tidak memperuntukkan bilik khas bagi keperluan ibu-ibu menyusu. Malah, boleh dikira dengan jari berapa banyak syarikat di Malaysia yang memberikan insurans coverage untuk bersalin. Apatah lagi menyediakan pusat penjagaan anak di dalam atau berdekatan dengan syarikat.

Mungkin perkara seperti ini dipandang remeh oleh kebanyakan orang, tetapi ia sedikit sebanyak menyumbang kepada alasan wanita-wanita bekerjaya di Malaysia untuk tidak meneruskan penyusuan selepas habis tempoh berpantang. Tidak sedikit ibu bapa masa kini yang menghantar anak mereka ke kampung halaman untuk dijaga oleh ibu bapa masing-masing kerana tidak sampai hati hendak menghantar bayi yang terlalu kecil ke pusat jagaan kanak-kanak. Seterusnya menjadi alasan untuk tidak meneruskan penyusuan susu ibu sehingga sekurang-kurangnya dua tahun mengikut saranan Islam.

Ini tidak menghairankan kerana, pusat jagaan kanak-kanak yang tumbuh macam cendawan selepas hujan ini tidak mementingkan keselamatan kerana penguatkuasaan undang-undang yang lemah. Sedangkan sepatutnya setiap penjaga dipusat jagaan kanak-kanak perlu diwajibkan mempunyai sekurang-kurangnya pengetahuan mengenai pertolongan cemas. Saya berpendapat pihak berkuasa di negara kita terlalu ber"lembut" dengan kes-kes kematian akibat kecuaian pusat penjagaan kanak-kanak yang berlaku.

Berbalik pada topik. Saya mendengar ramai ibu-ibu mengeluh kerana majikan bukan saja tidak menyediakan tempat yang sesuai untuk memerah susu, malah ada juga bos yang jeling-jeling manja bila pekerjanya ambil masa untuk memerah susu. Ini menyebabkan ramai ibu yang bekerjaya yang merasakan bahawa penyusuan susu ibu adalah pengalaman yang tidak menyeronokkan seterusnya memilih untuk memberikan susu formula apabila mereka mula bekerja. Salah siapa? Entahla..

Rasa bersalah??

Quoted dari Kellymom.com

Breastfeeding and Guilt

Written by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
(revised January 2000)

One of the most powerful arguments many health professionals, government agencies and formula company manufacturers make for not promoting and supporting breastfeeding is that we should "not make the mother feel guilty for not breastfeeding". Even some strong breastfeeding advocates are disarmed by this "not making mothers feel guilty" ploy.

It is, in fact, nothing more than a ploy. It is an argument that deflects attention from the lack of knowledge and understanding of too many health professionals about breastfeeding. This allows them not to feel guilty for their ignorance of how to help women overcome difficulties with breastfeeding, which could have been overcome and usually could have been prevented in the first place if mothers were not so undermined in their attempts to breastfeed. This argument also seems to allow formula companies and health professionals to pass out formula company literature and free samples of formula to pregnant women and new mothers without pangs of guilt, despite the fact that it has been well demonstrated that this literature and the free samples decrease the rate and duration of breastfeeding.

Let's look at real life. If a pregnant woman went to her physician and admitted she smoked a pack of cigarettes, is there not a strong chance that she would leave the office feeling guilty for endangering her developing baby? If she admitted to drinking a couple of beers every so often, is there not a strong chance that she would leave the office feeling guilty? If a mother admitted to sleeping in the same bed with her baby, would most physicians not make her feel guilty for this even though it is, in fact, the best thing for her and the baby? If she went to the office with her one week old baby and told the physician that she was feeding her baby homogenized milk, what would be the reaction of her physician? Most would practically collapse and have a fit. And they would have no problem at all making that mother feel guilty for feeding her baby cow's milk, and then pressuring her to feed the baby formula. (Not pressuring her to breastfeed, it should be noted, because "you wouldn't want to make a woman feel guilty for not breastfeeding".)

Why such indulgence for formula? The reason of course, is that the formula companies have succeeded so brilliantly with their advertising to convince most of the world that formula feeding is just about as good as breastfeeding, and therefore there is no need to make such a big deal about women not breastfeeding. As a vice-president of Nestle here in Toronto was quoted as saying "Obviously, advertising works". It is also a balm for the consciences of many health professionals who, themselves, did not breastfeed, or their wives did not breastfeed. "I will not make women feel guilty for not breastfeeding, because I don't want to feel guilty for my child not being breastfed".

Let's look at this a little more closely. Formula is certainly theoretically more appropriate for babies than cow's milk. But, in fact, there are no clinical studies that show that there is any difference between babies fed cow's milk and those fed formula. Not one. Breastmilk, and breastfeeding, which is not the same as breastmilk feeding, has many many more theoretical advantages over formula than formula has over cow's milk (or other animal milk). And we are just learning about many of these advantages. Almost every day there are more studies telling us about these theoretical advantages. But there is also a wealth of clinical data showing that, even in affluent societies, breastfed babies, and their mothers, incidentally, are much better off than formula fed babies. They have fewer ear infections, fewer gut infections, a lesser chance of developing juvenile diabetes and many other illnesses. The mother has a lesser chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer, and is probably protected against osteoporosis. And these are just a few examples.

So how should we approach support for breastfeeding? All pregnant women and their families need to know the risks of artificial feeding. All should be encouraged to breastfeed, and all should get the best support available for starting breastfeeding once the baby is born. Because all the good intentions in the world will not help a mother who has developed terribly sore nipples because of the baby's poor latch at the breast. Or a mother who has been told, almost always inappropriately, that she must stop breastfeeding because of some medication or illness in her or her baby. Or a mother whose supply has not built up properly because she was given wrong information. Make no mistake about itﾗhealth professionals' advice is often the single most significant reason for mothers' failing at breastfeeding! Not the only one, and other factors are important, but health professionals often have influence and authority far beyond their knowledge and experience.

If mothers get the information about the risks of formula feeding and decide to formula feed, they will have made an informed decision. This information must not come from the formula companies themselves, as it often does. Their pamphlets give some advantages of breastfeeding and then go on to imply that their formula is almost, well, between us, actually, just as good. If mothers get the best help possible with breastfeeding, and find breastfeeding is not for them, they will get no grief from me. It is important to know that a woman can easily switch from breastfeeding to bottle feeding. In the first days or weeksﾗno big problem. But the same is not true for switching from bottle feeding to breastfeeding. It is often very difficult or impossible, though not always.

Finally, who does feel guilty about breastfeeding? Not the women who make an informed choice to bottle feed. It is the woman who wanted to breastfeed, who tried, but was unable to breastfeed who feels guilty. In order to prevent women feeling guilty about not breastfeeding what is required is not avoiding promotion of breastfeeding, but promotion of breastfeeding coupled with good, knowledgeable and skillful support. This is not happening in most North American or European societies.

Memalukan sungguh!!

Adalah memalukan sekiranya kita sebagai seorang muslim yang sepatutnya tahu betapa besarnya fadhilat menyusukan anak yang dah sembilan bulan kita kandungi, tak bersungguh-sungguh dalam menjayakan penyusuan susu ibu. Sedangkan orang yang bukan Islam pun berusaha bersungguh-sungguh menyusukan bayi mereka kerana mereka sedar ada 1001 kebaikan kalau mereka menyusukan bayi mereka.

Kita boleh bagi 1001 alasan sekiranya gagal untuk menyusukan bayi kita. Hakikatnya kita yang lebih tahu sama ada kita benar-benar telah berusaha untuk menjayakannya atau sekadar melepaskan batuk di tangga. Tepuk dada tanya hati.

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A Unique Challenge To Breastfeeding

After the great response from our recent Health and Wellness segment on breastfeeding, I wanted to share my family's story on the challenges with nursing.

That my wife would breastfeed our second son, Willem, was a no-brainer. Leslie nursed our son Benjamin for his first 14 months and except for a rough couple early days, it came very naturally.

In the delivery room at 10 in the morning, just a few minutes after Will was born, Leslie put him to her breast, but this groggy little kid wouldn't latch on. Oh well. The nurses said he was tired and this was normal. After a half an hour she tried again. No latch. With a beautiful calm focus, Leslie tried again and again. Twelve hours later the nurses came and took the baby away for the night.

Bright and early the next morning they were at it again with no success. Nurses, the midwives, the lactation consultant all gave tips but nothing would work. About this time they were noticing other odd things about my son -- Will was "floppy," low muscle tone, had a funny cry, didn't blink when tapped on the forehead. By the next day the staff looks of concern had turned to pity. We were told before leaving for home, there was something "not normal" about my son.

Willem, Leslie and Benjamin Wuebben

Leslie was pumping and using the Haberman feeder- a special bottle for babies with feeding problems. He would eat but still couldn't suck. We saw specialists, therapists, neurologists, chiropractors and no one knew why he was unresponsive. It was possible, we were told, he could "snap out of it." Or he might not.

My wife never gave up trying to nurse him and for weeks she would put him to the breast before resorting to the feeder.

Around this time we discovered online a rare disorder that might fit Willem's symptoms- low muscle tone, inability to blink, suck, move the muscles of his face. It's called Moebius Syndrome. The article was titled "Kids Born without a Smile." I had hoped for that "snap" moment when he would become a normal baby and here I was reading about my son's future with a lifelong disability. Then I read further and saw a golden lining: most kids with Moebius have normal brain function and normal life expectancy.

Finally we knew something. He couldn't suck because he couldn't move the muscles of his face. He didn't react because his muscles were weak and he couldn't blink.

And then the miracles started to happen. One day, my wife went to nurse him and he sucked. She held his little lips together and he managed to get something. He could do it. As long as he could have something to latch onto deep in his mouth he could use his swallow response to pull the milk out. As those muscles grew stronger we started to see tiny twitches in his cheeks. The few muscles he had in his face were starting to work.

Willem continued to nurse well after his first birthday without the use of feeders and other aids. Though late, he continued to hit milestones. At 15 months he started to talk. At 30 months he walked. He learned to drink through a straw (no small feat for someone who can't close his lips).

I was mostly a bystander to all this. I got to watch the incredible power of a mother's love for her baby. Leslie was determined to give Willem the same early childhood experience that came so easy to his older brother and millions of other children. I hope her story inspires other mothers who face difficulties nursing.

Willem turns five this summer and he'll start kindergarten in the fall. He still receives a full regimen of therapies to work on his muscle tone and speech, but he's a happy, healthy, funny little boy. And I've discovered that the doctor at the hospital was right, my son is not normal, he's extraordinary.

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