Session-15-TraditionsMyths-FallaciesNMMC.pptx

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Session-15-TraditionsMyths-FallaciesNMMC

1. Traditions, Myths and Facts In Breast feeding

2. TRADITION A body of practices or social customs which have been handed down from previous generations so strongly rooted as to be as inviolable as law.

3. MYTH A false /traditional belief without historical verification widely accepted among the populace. Strongly rooted in the most ancient religious beliefs and institutions of people dealing with natural phenomena, god, goddesses.

4. FALLACY An error in reasoning or thinking which gives a conclusion that is seemingly true but actually false.

5. Group work – regional beliefs PRACTICES / TRADITIONS BELIEFS A. MOTHER PREGNANCY PRENATAL PERIOD COLOSTRUM CHANGES IN MILK (quantity / quality) BREAST PROBLEMS SEXUAL RELATION POSTPARTUM B. BABY

6. MOTHER (DURING PREGNANCY) TRADITIONS/ PRACTICES mother should wear black half-slip Avoid eating eggplant Eating twin bananas Staying or standing at the door always BELIEFS So that she will not be bewitched Baby will have dark colored skin Will have twin babies Mother will have difficult delivery or by caesarean section

7. PRE-NATAL PERIOD PRACTICE Accidental Fall Eating raw egg during labor Putting tie to one leg during labor BELIEFS Cause Congenital anomaly such as cleft lip/palate Will facilitate early delivery Will have continues labor contraction

8. COLOSTRUM PRACTICE Colostrums is discarded Husband will first suck the colostrums BELIEF Dirty " panis “ unhealthy To facilitate milk flow

9. CHANGES IN MILK (quality / quantity) PRACTICE Eating foods with Coconut Milk Include malungay leaves in the diet More liquid especially soup w/clams or sea shells Right Breast Left Breast BELIEF Decrease milk production Facilitate increase production of breast milk Rice Water

10. Breast Problems: PRACTICE Let down sensation Fatigue or Mother is tired Breast massage Bad mood/Sermon Arms position upward & back of the head BELIEFS Signs that the baby is already hungry Spoils Milk / Tiredness may sucked by the baby Increase breast milk production Breast feeding is interrupted Breast feeding is interrupted

11. SEXUAL RELATION PRACTICE No sex contact up to 7 months of pregnancy BELIEF Some of the body parts may be deformed or the nose will become flat

12. POSTPARTUM PRACTICE No bath for 2 weeks Use of herbal plants for bathing Body massage ( hilot ) for 2 weeks BELIEF To avoid insanity For healing and relieves body pain To avoid relapse

13. FALLACIES AND TRADITIONAL FOLK PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT ASIAN COUNTRIES Countries Breastmilk Substitute & Feeding Practices Beliefs Lactation Diet Bangladesh N.B. – Fed ‘Heating Foods’ Ex: Honey, Sugar, Water, Mustard Oil Give Strength & prevent colds; colostrum is unhygienic Muslim Women (there is a pollution period of 6-45 days after delivery and they won’t eat any animal foods for 6 months.

14. Countries Breastmilk Substitute & Feeding Practices Beliefs Lactation Diet Burma Feeding with boiled water with honey, others don’t give anything for 48 hours Colostrum is discarded because it is dirty Don’t eat green foods for fear of giving colic or green stool; restrict eating bananas for fear of delivering a large baby. Spicy & bitter foods caused abortion.

15. Countries Breastmilk Substitute & Feeding Practices Beliefs Lactation Diet India Initiate breastfeeding after 49-72 hours, gives tea, sugar and water for 2–3 days Discard colostrum Drinks water with fried ginger and black pepper for 10-30 days Pakistan Gives sugar, water, anise, herbs concoction, honey Discard colostrum for 3 days Herbs, goats milk, certain legumes – cause indigestion

16. Countries Breastmilk Substitute & Feeding Practices Beliefs Lactation Diet Indonesia Honey, young coconut, mashed bananas, sugar, water, & powdered milk; pre-chewed rice after fermenting overnight; tea, porridge Discard colostrum cause LBM & vomiting > Restricts fish – cause stomach worms, > vegetable with coconut milk – LBM; > papaya, cucumber -upset stomach

17. Countries Breastmilk Substitute & Feeding Practices Beliefs Lactation Diet Nepal Gives cow’s milk, molasses and rice flour Colostrum discarded because it’s un-cleaned; delays feeding for 3 days - Philippines Gives ampalaya juice, rice water, infant formula Discard colostrum Cocoa drinks, ritual brushing of the breast with plants which exudes milky fluids.

18. MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT BREASTFEEDING THE MYTH THE FACT Bottle feeding is easier than breastfeeding It is, if someone else prepares the feed and cleans up afterwards.

19. THE MYTH THE FACT You can’t tell how much a breastfed baby gets, but you know how much you have given a bottle-fed baby. This is partially true but if the breastfed baby is contented and thriving, he is getting enough. And many bottle-fed babies are overfed or fed on improperly. Prepared formula feeds – too strong, too weak, or with the wrong quantity of sugar.

20. THE MYTH THE FACT Breastfeeding makes you more tired than bottle feeding. Although breastfed babies need to be fed at more frequent intervals than bottle-fed babies, bottle feeding requires time to prepare the formula, and to clean up the bottles and teat after each feed.

21. THE MYTH THE FACT If you breastfeed you will get sore nipples or mastitis This is a fair comment, but they can be avoided by good prenatal care of the nipples and breasts and by the proper management of the first days after childbirth when lactation is established.

22. THE MYTH THE FACT Breastfeeding spoils your figure More fat burned when breastfeeding

23. Dangers of Discarding Colostrum and Giving Prelacteals Interferes establishment of lactation - Lactation Failures Deprives the newborn of the anti-bodies and other substances Prone to Infection Danger of suffocation by aspiration

24. It is necessary for us to realize that we cannot produce a change overnight in attitudes that have developed over the last 50 years. Thank you