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Paid to breastfeed?

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Baggs Wed 13-Dec-17 06:19:57

There is a proposal doing the rounds at the moment that women should be paid to breastfeed their babies. It is a suggestion made by health experts, according to the article I read, based on the fact that giving mothers cash vouchers if they breastfed their babies improved the number doing so by about 20%. Well, they said they were breastfeeding. The same article admitted that the experiment with vouchers relied, without any checks, on women saying they were breastfeeding.

Would being paid have made a difference to you? Would you, if you were a bottle-feeder, have breastfed instead if you had been rewarded financially for doing so?

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Dec-17 15:50:31

According to some research it does
www.glutenfreesociety.org/gluten-gliadin-found-in-breast-milk/

although other research would conclude that it helps prevent this auto-immune disease.

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Dec-17 15:53:05

www.verywell.com/can-there-be-gluten-in-breast-milk-562524

However, I can only go my our own experience.