{"id":13317,"date":"2016-05-30T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2024-07-03T02:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:30:30","slug":"pediatrics-journal-says-to-stop-calling-breastfeeding-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13317","title":{"rendered":"Pediatrics Journal says to stop calling breastfeeding natural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BreastFeedingBaby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13318\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BreastFeedingBaby-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Breast Feeding Baby\" width=\"764\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFans of the AVN writes:<br \/>\n&#8220;If you ever wondered whether the world has gone completely and utterly crazy, wonder no more. In a recent article in the journal, Pediatrics, doctors are being urged to stop &#8216;claiming&#8217; that breastfeeding is natural.<br \/>\nIn fact, &#8220;The authors have started a public campaign to end the positive use of the word natural, claiming that it is associated with such &#8220;problematic&#8221; practices as home birth, homeschooling and the rejection of GMO foods, and that natural parenting movements are interfering with vaccination efforts.&#8221;<br \/>\nGo natural, I say! And down with doctors who want to discourage the positive connotations of what parents instinctively know to be true:<br \/>\nBreast is best;<br \/>\nGMOs are bad<br \/>\nNatural parenting is respectful of both parent and baby<br \/>\nand vaccination efforts SHOULD be interfered with if they involve any form of compulsion, coercion or suppression of information.<br \/>\nMD&#8221;<br \/>\nThe article states:<br \/>\n&#8220;Studies have shown that anti-vaccination sentiment tends to overlap with reliance on and interest in complementary and alternative medicine, skepticism of institutional authority, and a strong commitment and interest in health knowledge, autonomy and healthy living practices.&#8221;<br \/>\nI think they have something there! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/pediatrics-journal-says-to-stop-calling-breastfeeding-natural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/pediatrics-journal-says-to-stop-calling-breastfeeding-natural<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the AVN writes: &#8220;If you ever wondered whether the world has gone completely and utterly crazy, wonder no more. In a recent article in the journal, Pediatrics, doctors are being urged to stop &#8216;claiming&#8217; that breastfeeding is natural. In fact, &#8220;The authors have started a public campaign to end the positive use of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pediatrics Journal says to stop calling breastfeeding natural&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-humourhumor","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52993,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions\/52993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}