Why are black women less likely to breastfeed?
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executive summary about black women less likely to breastfeed by bim dunwanmi
I was struck
by the poor birth outcomes (infant death, maternal death, low birth weight and
pre-term birth rates) that were happening to college-educated black women,"In
America, the black infant mortality rate is twice as high – our babies are
dying at twice the rate of white babies." "Black women have, for the
past 40 years, significantly lagged behind white women in our breastfeeding
rates," says the New Yorker. Seals Allers wants to change the way people
see breastfeeding. There's a stereotype among black women that the kind of
woman who breastfeeds is more like Erykah Badu. "A relative said to me
that breastfeeding was for poor people," she says.
No one seems
to have the answer for the low breastfeeding rates among black women in
America, though there are many theories. "When white women stopped, we
stopped too. Now Angelina Jolie and Gisele are breastfeeding and white women
are too, [but] black women did not follow suit," says Seals Allers.
"People
see feeding as indecent, "Privilege allows you to be ahead of black people
if you're white, and that's what's happening in the mum blogger space. The
assumption is that black women are good enough to raise other people's children,
but we're not good enough to raise our own. On the Mocha Manual website, black
parents talk about the issues that affect them. "We once had a piece about
black boys and black male achievement at school.
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