Child malnutrition rate remains high in Thailand

[kannon99]

- Enforce the WHO code of standards for correct advertising for milk substitutes.

- Teach nurses, midwives, and doctors real breastfeeding education, not education supplied by the formula companies or the measly 4 hr of education in med school.

- Enact laws that protect the breastfeeding mother, supply breastpumps and milk storage options, and decent amounts of time for moms to pump at work.

- Allow for 6 months maternity leave so babies can get the WHO recommended minimum of six months being exclusively breastfed.

- Support birthing practices that don't hinder or alter the breastfeeding dyad.

Babies that have a fabulous beginning with breastmilk will have a much higher chance of survival and growth.

you know that a 6 month maternity leave will erease all the hopes for a good job for women? A step 200 years into the past.

How about allowance for half time work and bringing the baby to work where possible?

Not 200 years in the past. It's the future and how many developed countries have succeeded and with better health outcomes for women and children. Those women aren't losing their jobs.

Yes this culture is different from the European countries that have good maternity leave (or paternity leave in trade) but there are decent and workable options if they would just be considered. This is why I mentioned laws (like most countries) that allow for working moms to have time for pumping if she can't take off more time from work. Breastfed baby = less sickness = less time mom misses work.