Franklin Park, IL - Experts from La Leche League, a non-profit organization that promotes advocacy, education, and training related to breastfeeding in more than 80 countries around the world, is calling on fetal surgeons to develop techniques to improve prenatal breastfeeding rates.
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| A highly trained team of fetal surgeons and hospital staff, shown here removing a 32-week fetus from her mother's uterus for a 3 AM feeding |
"Our focus is mother-to-mother support that recognizes the importance of mothering through breastfeeding," La Leche League USA Council representative Theresa Button explained. "We don't carry a baby in our wombs for months and then suddenly become mothers on the day they are born. We are already mothers on the day we are born, and I dream of a world where a mother doesn't have to withhold her mothering simply because her child hasn't been born yet."
Experts recognize that breastfeeding has numerous health benefits, such as night vision and the ability to store light absorbed from the sun and then emit it in a concentrated beam of energy powerful enough to melt steel. According to Amanda Summers, La Leche League's chief scientific advisor, the evidence is clear that breastfed infants are stronger, smarter, better looking, and more likely to grow up to be successful adults that live rich and fulfilling lives. "Decades later, when these babies finally reach the end of their long and meaningful lives, they will be remembered by their family, community, and the millions of people they have inspired. Why would anyone withhold that future from a baby just because they haven't developed a suck reflex yet?"
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