The early childhood topic I choose to focus on is breastfeeding. I have three children and when I gave birth to my first son back in March 1989; breastfeeding was not a big topic back then like it is now. My doctor never did ask me if I was going to breastfeed my baby, I guess he just assumed I was not interested in doing so at the time. But in the late 90’s when I gave birth to my second son, I was asked if I was going to breastfeed or bottle feed my baby and I chose to bottle feed.
The first subtopic that I would like to research more on is what is the advantage of breastfeeding for the mother? What is the advantage of breastfeeding for the baby? I would like to know what I missed out on for me not breastfeeding my children.
My second subtopic is if a mother has gone to the doctor about an unrelated illness and the doctor wants to put the mother on medication, what should the mother do? I would like to know whether or not if the mother would have to stop breastfeeding the baby and put the baby on formula. My plans are to research to see how this subtopic is related to the early childhood field.
As I continue to do my research on these subtopics this week’s discussion board has taught me how to look for credible sources that would benefit me as I research. I look forward to sharing with you the ones that interested me the most.
HI Tracey,
ReplyDeleteI breastfeed both of our children until I returned to work. Although it was a short time, I really enjoyed snuggling with them. I look forward to learning more about breastfeeding through your research. I found the process of learning to evaluate the websites to be very useful.
Keep up the great work!
Tamara