Unbelievable! - Hanya 14.5% ibu di Malaysia menyusu bayi

Hanya 14.5% ibu di Malaysia menyusu bayi - Taken from Harian Metro online - Saturday - 27122008

KUALA LUMPUR: Budaya penyusuan badan di kalangan ibu-ibu di Malaysia sangat rendah apabila kajian menunjukkan 14.5 peratus saja yang memberikan susu badan kepada anak sehingga berusia enam bulan.

Statistik Kementerian Kesihatan menunjukkan kejahilan mengenai nilai susu badan, kurang sokongan anggota keluarga dan kakitangan penjagaan kesihatan serta ibu kembali bekerja sebaik tamat tempoh cuti bersalin antara penyebab utamanya.

Iklan juga memainkan peranan apabila menggambarkan seolah-olah makanan bayi komersial yang ada sama baik dengan penyusuan badan.

Bagi melindungi, mempromosi dan menyokong amalan penyusuan badan di negara ini, kementerian berkaitan merangka satu kod etika produk formula bayi yang berkuatkuasa Ogos lalu menggantikan kod etika pertama yang diperkenalkan pada 1979 yang didapati tidak lagi berkesan.

Kod etika berkenaan memberikan garis panduan yang jelas untuk mengawal promosi yang kompetitif dan mengiklankan produk komersial bayi yang dilihat mengatasi kemampuan susu badan.Ia juga bertujuan memastikan penggunaan formula bayi wajar sebagai produk dan makanan tambahan.

Tujuan utama kod itu bagi mengingatkan pekilang dan pengedar supaya tidak memasar, mempromosi atau mengiklankan produk susu formula mengatasi mutu dan kualiti terbaik susu badan.

Penyelidikan menunjukkan susu badan yang terbaik untuk bayi kerana ia memberikan perlindungan terhadap penyakit dan membantu menjalin hubungan rapat antara ibu dan anak.

Mengenai kod itu yang dikaji semula, seorang jururawat kesihatan kanak-kanak, Tan Bee Lan berkata, ia langkah yang baik kerana syarikat menggunakan ibu yang mengandung, pekerja kesihatan, doktor, malah kanak-kanak sekolah untuk mempromosikan produk mereka.

“Kini diharap dengan kod yang lebih terkini dan berkesan ini, ibu tidak terpengaruh untuk memberikan susu formula kepada bayi mereka,” katanya.

Tan yang bertugas selama 30 tahun berkata, susu badan secara idealnya perlu menjadi satu-satunya sumber makanan untuk bayi sehingga sekurang-kurangnya enam bulan. - Bernama

My Comments:

- This is ridiculous! People should know how good breastfeeding are, and nothing like formula milk could ever replace it.

- Adakah susu formula blh membantu dari segi immunisation? I think, God's creation is the best, and nothing like human's creation could ever replace it! Totally against these statements! I think, if ever the health institution wants to make comments on this, they should compare their research with others like in the US or UK, which is better in terms of health care.

- Kaum ibu harus di tingkat kan kesedaran mereka, harus lebih di dedahkan pada pentingnya susu badan, seperti mana kaum ibu di negara2 lain yg lebih maju. Kajian telah banyak di jalankan, dan sudah terbukti, bahawa susu badan banyak membawa kebaikan, bukan saja dari segi imunisasi, tetapi juga dari segi merapatkan kasih sayang, mewujudkan jalinan mesra di antara ibu dan anak.

- Many things, can come up from this. Like the government can re-look at what they are currently implementing. Yang lebih penting dan utama adalah mewujudkan institusi kekeluargaan sebelum melihat kepada kejayaan sesebuah negara... jika institusi keluarga hancur, maka, timbul lah gejala2 sosial. Jika semua kaum ibu lebih pentingkan kerjaya, maka anak2 akan ramai yg terbiar?!?! I don't know.. but this may relate to many things, negative things in the future...

- Kalau boleh, cuba lihat negara2 yg sudah stabil seperti England, di mana, mereka amat mementingkan breastfeeding... sehingga kempen2 adalah lebih kepada menggalakkan susu badan, dan ada bnyk support group untuk membantu kaum ibu. Even the midwives, health visitor juga banyak memberi nasihat tentang betapa pentingnya susu badan.

- Banyak perkara yg nak saya share.. tapi, amat terhad masa untuk menulis.

But please people.. for the sake of anak2.. breastfeeding is the best!

loving it

i just love what i am doing.. and i'm gonna love it for the next 2 years.. and i'm going to make sure.. it has a future of its own... and i am positive to prolong the research in my career soon...

updates as on the 12th of december

i have been doing some thinking.. a lot actually about my study and research.. the past 8 months, with my previous supervisor had actually taught me some skills which requires some time to be developed. I am very thankful, to be able to slowly develop those skills.. and with my new supervisor, I just need to proceed with my research interest, needing not to worry about these skills... its very hard to explain in details about these skills that I have developed though.. however, I can now say that it actually does helps me a lot with proceeding with things that I am currently doing...

the thing that i am currently thinking is that.. i read several papers... i kept on reading them.. as I wanted to know more about this.. and its becoming more and more interesting.. when you have lots of questions on it.. you keep on looking and searching and finding it... one thing that i find most helpful is that.. when you asked a question about something.. write them in your question book.. then look up for the answers straight away.. you will then understand the relationship of what you questioned and the things you have read before..

another thing that I am currently worried about is the time to make notes of what i have read... being me.. i like to make notes.. but i just do not have the right time to do it.. the 'right time' for me would mean to have the 'MOOD' to write and make notes of it.. if not, it wouldn't be perfect.. and i hate doing things many times.. i like things to be perfectly clear.. before proceeding with something else.. but this would take ample of time..

an idea just struck my head: I need to do lots and lots of MIND MAPPING!!! which will relate to whatever and everything that I am reading.. just found... and things that i need to look at further...

yes.. MIND MAPPING would be perfect..

I don't know what other methods that others are using.. but i think.. what works for me is to make notes.. again and again and again.. until it is stuck in my head.. but i have to have the guts to do this over and over and over.. i know that i don't like repeating the same things twice and many times.. but this is not it.. what i meant is to rewrite again.. in different ways.. a progress from one notes to another.. and hoping that lastly.. would relate well being a MIND MAP.. do you get what i mean? owh well.. it doesn't matter.. its just something that i need to practise and keep on doing.. i'm having a few note books with me.. organized in a manner that each section with each heading... and yep.. i have got to just proceed with it...

my experiments? yes.. i'm proceeding good with it.. very surprisingly good.. i'm happy.. i have some ideas on what to proceed.. just need to write them down and make a mind map.. and discuss with mr SV..

i am positive about this.. i am positive that i will succeed.. i am positive that this is well.. with blesses from Allah.. amin...