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<\/a><\/div>\nHospitals in the United Kingdom have begun using the term “chestfeeding” instead of “breastfeeding,” just years after U.S. academics published a study in which they argued that the promotion of breastfeeding as the “natural” way to feed a child has many negative societal effects.<\/p>\n
In early 2021, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in the United Kingdom drew international criticism for\u00a0swapping<\/a>\u00a0the word “breastfeeding” for “chestfeeding” in an attempt to be more inclusive of transgender individuals.<\/p>\n Likewise, Harvard Medical School referred to women as “birthing people” in an effort to “include those who identify as non-binary or transgender,” as\u00a0Campus Reform<\/em>\u00a0previously\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants,” wrote\u00a0Jessica Martucci<\/a>\u00a0of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and\u00a0Anne Barnhill<\/a>\u00a0of Johns Hopkins University in the journal\u00a0Pediatrics<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0“Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Martucci and Barnhill explained that in the 1950s and 1960s, a movement of women sought to promote breastfeeding in the wake of advances in medical formula technology \u2014 an approach that the researchers find “ethically problematic” because it may “support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family” \u2014 for example, “that women should be the primary caretakers of children.”<\/p>\n “Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion, then, may inadvertently endorse a controversial set of values about family life and gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate,” they state.<\/strong><\/p>\n The researchers were also concerned that such rhetoric “may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination.”<\/strong><\/p>\n As recently as 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics\u00a0reaffirmed<\/a>\u00a0its stance that “breastfeeding and human milk are the normative standards for infant feeding and nutrition.”<\/p>\n “Given the documented short- and long-term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant nutrition should be considered a public health issue and not only a lifestyle choice,” said the organization.<\/p>\nComment:<\/strong>\u00a0It’s hardly a ‘belief’ that\u00a0natural approaches<\/a> are healthier:<\/h3>\n
Comment:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, like\u00a0everything else<\/a>\u00a0that’s ‘racist’ today.<\/h3>\n