Is breast milk coming out?
October 7, 19:37
The topic is tweets that begin with "Older people ask me if I'm with a baby," Breast milk? "
The woman who tweeted has been disgusted by this kind of question that is often asked.
That feeling has changed a little now.
(Network Press Department Reporter Naoko Okubo Soraya Sugimoto)
A mysterious question
The tweet starts with this text.
"I was wondering why the elderly asked me if I was going to meet with a baby for the first time."
Posted by "Kairo @ 9m".
When I contacted him, he was a mother in her twenties raising a nine-month-old baby.
The tweet continues like this.
"But I talked to my grandmother (88 years old) and solved the mystery.
It's a remnant of "getting milk"!
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In the past, when there was not enough milk, I had another breastfeeding person breastfeed, or on the contrary, I had the baby suck it to promote secretion, so "Mr. △△ of ○○ is breastfeeding. It was normal to keep track of the information that "there will come out" ... "
" It's a statement that is not delicate with modern values, but in the past it was a confirmation of the status of childcare infrastructure ... "
"Breast sisters", reacting to breast milk one after another
When Kairo @ 9m tweeted, we received a series of reactions regarding breastfeeding.
Than Twitter
, "died soon (the grandmother) mother born grandmother, I heard that grew up in Moraichichi. That is the home of the daughter was talking well during his lifetime," It is milk and sisters. ' "
" It Te is Maybe a grandmother in her 80s is really like a greeting ?? It's not a breast milk myth, it's a remnant of when there is no milk in the first place. "
There was also a tweet like this, probably because it was an era when powdered milk was not available.
From Twitter,
"My grandmother in my neighborhood
gave
me goat's milk and tried hard, but she lost her daughter. She said sadly because she didn't have milk ..."
Kairo @ 9m heard the word "milk" from her grandmother when she called her parents' house last month.
My 88-year-old grandmother answered the phone and said, "Baby in my parents' neighborhood is mixed (using powdered milk as well as breast milk)."
"Now, that's a personal thing, so don't ask," said Kairo @ 9m.
I was often asked if I was breastfeeding myself, and "I was taken aback by not asking for something very personal."
However, the following words came out from my grandmother on the phone.
"In the old days, there was" getting milk ", so I heard it in the habit of that time. I did something wrong ..."
Did you know that the word came out of the habit? I have.
Kairo @ 9m
"Before I heard about my grandmother, when I was asked about breast milk, I felt the pressure of being checked to see if I was doing well as a mother."
"But I understand why I was asked. I felt a little lighter, saying, "I see!" I still hate being asked, but now I can answer more easily than before. "
Breast milk = a network that connects lives
Mikako Sawayama, a historian who is abandoned in the Edo period and is studying the theme of breastfeeding, says:
Many researchers
"We can't just use the words culture and customs to get milk. Without it, it would have been a" urgent means "that wouldn't save the baby's life."
In the Edo period, the mortality rate of pregnant women was high, and it was said that whether or not there was a way for children to eat breast milk was life-threatening.
Many researchers
"In an era when the lives of mothers and children are fragile, it is not possible to entrust child-rearing to the hands of each mother. I think that it was essential to form a milk network to keep the baby's life."
Even though the words "human milk" and "woman's milk" were found in the literature of the Edo period, the word "breast milk" was not found, and "milk" did not necessarily mean "real mother's milk". Many are thinking.
How long will the milk be received?
How long did you have milk?
Many believe that it was still practiced in rural areas around the 1950s, before the high economic miracle.
It seems that many letters like the following have been sent to Mr.
From the letter I received,
"I was born in Niigata in 1948, but my mother became ill after giving birth and I couldn't produce milk. I heard that she was entrusted to a relative woman and grew up with that person's milk."
"1948 When I gave birth to my eldest son, I was pleased to give it to a baby who had a lot of milk and was short of milk in the neighborhood. "
I heard it at "Grandma's Harajuku"
I also asked Sugamo, which is also called "Grandma's Harajuku".
When I talked to people on the street in Sugamo's shopping district, I first heard a voice saying, "It seems that my parents had it."
Then, when I heard the story, the sixth woman, a woman who came with four classmates, told me, "I grew up with breast milk."
The woman is 70 years old.
He weighed more than 4000 grams when he was born.
A woman who grew up
with breast milk
said,
"I
heard that
my mother's milk wasn't enough because she was big, and she had a mother with a baby in her neighborhood
share
her breast milk. When she grew up, her neighbor's child was finer. , "I wonder if you drank nutrition instead" was jokingly said. "
Around 1950, when a woman was born, powdered milk was still difficult to obtain in some areas.
A woman who grew up with breast milk
"I think I was able to breastfeed at that time, but now I have a weak relationship with my neighbors and I think it's difficult for some people to worry about hygiene."
Breastfeeding worries, still deep
Breastfeeding was once life-threatening.
And even now, "Most of the worries about child-rearing are related to breast-feeding for mothers raising infants," says Yuka Wada, a doctor at the Department of Neonatology, National Center for Child Health and Development, who is in charge of child-care consultation services.
I'm worried about the amount of milk produced and mixed with powdered milk.
According to Dr. Wada, breast milk has many good points, such as being thought to be effective in preventing infectious diseases and allergic diseases.
However, some mothers are ill and cannot drink breast milk, and Mr. Wada advises that "it is okay if you drink properly made powdered milk, such as boiling water to sterilize it."
Dr. Wada
"If you can breastfeed as much as you can, that's the best thing for your baby. I want you to have fun raising your child without seeking perfection."
To a society that can be said to help
I also learned the word "milk" for the first time.
Whether or not you know the word makes a big difference in how you perceive breast milk, which may sometimes lead to a misunderstanding of childcare between generations.
And, of course, there are things that change with the times, but there are also things that do not change.
Many researchers
"From a long historical perspective, breastfeeding has been a symbol of maternity since modern times, and it has not always been common sense. I think that the time when we had breastfeeding and the fact that it is still the same is that children cannot grow up by the power of their mothers alone. A society where mothers can help their children to live freely. I think it's an important thing that never changes. "