The biggest breastfeeding challenge a woman faces is...

 


The biggest breastfeeding challenge a woman faces is an entire industry that profits off of her not breastfeeding. 

According to GlobesNewsWire The global Infant Formula Market in 2019 was approximately USD 57.12 Billion. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.8% and is anticipated to reach around USD 110.26 Billion by 2026.

Women are fed (no pun intended) unrealistic expectations about breastfeeding. They are told they can “breastfeed” (pump their breastmilk and bottle feed), go back to work after a few weeks, sustain their marriage, have a healthy baby and resume social actives and feel fulfilled. Sorry, it’s not true.

Breastfeeding is a full time commitment. You can commit to breastfeeding and you can commit to your marriage. Or you can be a working woman and commit to your marriage. Or you can work… and oops, no, you cannot work and breastfeed. You can try and you will most likely feel pretty miserable, fragmented, resentful and overwhelmed. This is one way society is set up to discourage women from breastfeeding. We have been sold a feminist lie that we can, and should “have it all”, you can’t. If you try, there will be nothing left of you, and all parts will feel like they are hanging on by a thread.

For those of you new to breastfeeding, you can either feed on demand from the breast anytime the baby is hungry or you can pump breastmilk and bottle feed. That is not breastfeeding, that is bottle feeding. This is distinct because babies who are bottle feeding are not developing the same jaw structure, oral health, sinus system, or gut health that a direct to breast baby is developing.

During pregnancy many women cannot fully commit to breastfeeding. They say “I’d love to breastfeed, I’ll do it.. if it works out, but I know everyone says it’s hard”.

As a learned skill it’s actually not hard at all. Once you get through (with the right support) the initial two week challenges that come with a steep learning curve, it’s actually as easy as brushing your teeth.

The challenges are:

1. constant advertising of products for the “the modern woman”: bottles, pacifiers, breast pumps, snoos, “probiotic formula”, cribs, strollers, night nurses.

2. Traumatic hospital births

3. A societal belief system that nourishing/breastfeeding your child is too time consuming and tethering, *lets face it, you’re a busy woman* I know many people say, my situation doesn’t allow me to breastfeed, and its true, in the cases where a woman ends up without a partner to financially support the family so she can assume role as mother, then yes, it becomes about everyones survival.

4. The various industries benefiting off a woman not breastfeeding. Namely Formula and Pharma. When not breastfed children are sicker, not only throughout childhood, but into adulthood. People spend thousands on correcting gut health, skin conditions, oral health, behavioral issues and various “auto-immune” disorders (yes, we know these are also caused by various injections offered at your local drug pushers office).

Who is really benefitting off of women not breastfeeding? It isn’t the woman who gets to “be a modern woman”, it’s definitely not the baby, its every company that this woman and child become enmeshed with.

The PsyOp runs deep.

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