07/12/2024
By the book, we all know that breast milk is the best food for infants, so as how we always educate our patients/ the public.🤱🏼
In reality, there are numerous obstacles tho, which one may not know until actually experienced. Emotion, nutrition and hydration, stress and the amount of rest and support all affects the volume of milk production.
In HK specifically, even if we mothers have good milk supply (which is alrdy difficult), without a supportive breastfeeding-friendly policy at work, it’s kinda hard to maintain exclusive bf sadly because the maternity leave is just too short.
As revealed by a survey from the Department of Health, around one third of the interviewed mothers indicated that “returning to workplace“ was their reason to stop breastfeeding.
Even so, what we could do maybe still advocate and negotiate the best arrangement without putting on too much stress, and make sure you all take good care of yourself 🫂🤱🏼🫶🏻