DARi milis sebelah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henny Hendiyani Zainal <[email protected]>
Dear moms, Hampir setiap hari kita dengar atau lihat di media baik itu elektronik ataupun surat kabar berita mengenai kriminalitas. Bukan tidak sering jika kita mendengar berita mengenai seorang anak membunuh ibu/ayahnya/siapapun. Bagi para aktivis/pemerhati laktasi, pasti secara spontan akan mengeluarkan berbagai komentar/pernyataan/pertan yaan pada sesama rekan. Komentar yang dikeluarkan seringkali seperti demikian: “Hmm..sepertinya orang tersebut tidak mengalami proses menyusui yang baik sehingga dia tumbuh menjadi sosok yang menakutkan.” Atau, “Jika saja wanita itu menyusui anaknya dan mendapatkan dukungan pastinya ia tidak akan tega mengakhiri hidup anaknya.” Dan masih banyak lagi komentar-komentar yang akan terucap dari bibir kita. Moms, Proses menyusui bukanlah sekedar proses pembuktian akan cinta dan kasih sayang kita terhadap sang buah hati. Bukan pula sebatas mengoptimalkan daya tahan tubuh sang buah hati melalui nutrisi yang baik. Namun, proses menyusui merupakan tahapan lanjutan dalam membentuk sebuah kepribadian sang buah hati. Kenapa saya sebut sebagai tahapan lanjutan? Karena tahap awal telah berlangsung di saat kita memilih pasangan hidup, saat berlangsungnya proses penyatuan dua jiwa, saat buah buah cinta tumbuh dan berkembang dalam rahim sang istri, dan saat persalinan. Sebagaimana yang disampaikan oleh Katherine Hobbs Knutson, MD, dan Alexy Arauz Boudreau, MD, MPH, dari Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston dalam presentasinya di the American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting bahwa proses menyusui memiliki kaitan erat dalam pembentukan dan perkembangan emosi dan intelektual yang jauh lebih baik bagi buah hati kita daripada pemberian makanan lain pengganti ASI terutama jika menggunakan alat bantu seperti dot/botol. Dan dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dr Knutson, bahwa proses menyusui yang tidak berjalan dengan baik berimbas kepada penurunan kepedulian para orang tua terhadap perilaku sang buah hati, keterlambatan mendiagnosis akan adanya kelainan perilaku/jiwa oleh tenaga medis, dan (sedikit kebutuhan akan) pembinaan kesehatan jiwa selama masa kanak-kanak. Dear moms, Proses menyusui bukanlah sekedar proses memberikan makanan yang terbaik dari segi kesehatan fisik semata. Namun proses menyusui yang berkualitas, dimana saat kita menyusui diiringi hati yang ikhlas dan cinta kasih yang begitu dalam sehingga seluruh pesan-pesan dari seluruh jiwa raga kita akan tersampaikan pada sang buah hati; Hal inilah yang mendukung pembentukan jiwa dan raga yang baik. Let them feel who’s the angel.. Di bawah ini adalah artikel yang menjadi inspirasi penulisanku ^_^ Breast-Fed Children Have Fewer Learning Problems, Mental Health Diagnoses By Norra MacReady November 4, 2008 (San Diego, California) — Breast-feeding is associated with better intellectual and emotional development than bottle feeding, according to findings presented here at the American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting. Parents or guardians of breast-fed children were less likely to express concern about learning capacities, and the children were less likely to have required treatment for behavioral, conduct, or mental-health problems, authors Katherine Hobbs Knutson, MD, and Alexy Arauz Boudreau, MD, MPH, from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, reported in an oral presentation. Good research supports the association between breast-feeding and cognitive and intellectual development, but its effect on behavior and psychologic development are not as well understood, Dr. Knutson, a psychiatrist at MGH, told Medscape Public Health & Prevention. "What's new here is that breast-feeding during infancy is associated with decreased parental concern about behavior, fewer diagnoses of behavioral or conduct disorder by healthcare professionals, and [less need for] mental healthcare during childhood." The authors drew on data from the National Survey of Children's Health, which included interviews with more than 100,000 parents and guardians on the health of their children, who ranged in age from 10 months to 18 years. This study included data on children from 1 to 5 years of age. The parents or guardians were asked if they were concerned a lot, a little, or not at all about how well the child was learning to do things for him- or herself; how well the child was learning preschool or school skills, and how he or she was behaving in general. Answers indicating any degree of concern were combined for the analysis. The parents and guardians were also asked whether the child had ever been diagnosed with conduct or behavioral problems, and whether the child had ever received any mental-health care or counseling. The authors controlled for the child's age, race, sex, and socioeconomic status, as well as parental education and maternal mental health. Breast-feeding was associated with an odds ratio (OR) of 0.77 that parents or guardians would report concern about the child's ability to learn for him- or herself, and an OR of 0.76 for the child's ability to learn preschool skills. It was also associated with less concern about the child's behavior (OR, 0.85), and a lower likelihood of medically diagnosed behavior or conduct problems, or receipt of mental-health care (OR, 0.63 for both). The reasons for these findings are still unclear, Dr. Knutson said. "Our study is unable to explain why breast-feeding may affect behavior, but it is possible that nutrients in human milk may influence the neurologic mechanisms or psychological development in children." Although the authors did control for parental education and maternal mental health, "mothers who breast-feed are different than those who do or did not," warned Sheela R. Geraghty, MD, MS, assistant professor of pediatrics, and medical director of the Center for Breast-feeding Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. "Mothers who breast-feed answer behavioral expectations about their children differently than those who do not." Still, she said, "while the data presented are preliminary, this abstract highlights [the fact] that parents who reported that their children were breast-fed also reported that their children had less behavioral and conduct problems," said Dr. Geraghty, who was not involved in the study. "These findings cannot be causally linked, but they highlight the point that choices made for the infant — including the feeding choices — in the early infancy period can have a lasting impact throughout childhood." Neither Dr. Knutson nor Dr. Geraghty has disclosed any relevant financial disclosures. American Public Health Association (APHA) 136th Annual Meeting: Abstract 173228. Presented October 29, 2008. -- Salam ASI, Henny H. 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