Abstract
This paper was presented at the symposium on Breastfeeding and Feminism: A Focus on Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice. It underscores the power and potential of synergy between and among organizations and individuals supporting breastfeeding, the mother-child dyad, and reproductive health to increase sustainable breastfeeding support. These concepts were brought together to lay the groundwork for working group discussions of synergy in program and policy actions.
Highlights
Reproduction may be defined as the successful creation of the generation of individuals of the same species who are able to reproduce
Given the importance of breastfeeding for ensuring the health and survival of the generation, its impact on fertility, and its impact on maternal health, it is arguable that breastfeeding is as much a part of the reproductive continuum as are conception, pregnancy, birth and family planning
LFaigctuarteion2al amenorrhea method Lactational amenorrhea method. This method of family planning evolved from transdisciplinary thinking: How can we address the need to support breastfeeding and child spacing?
Summary
This presentation is intended to stimulate thinking about the difficulties in stepping outside of our primary areas of interest, and to offer frames of reference for considering where synergies might be identified and acted upon. Dedicated individuals and organizations who care about equity can find areas of synergy to enhance dynamic social action in support of reproductive health, rights and justice, regardless of their primary objectives. Specific actions, such as inclusion of LAM as an introductory method towards adequate child spacing in breastfeeding, family planning, and child survival programming, are encouraged. Our mission here today is to support the reproductive continuum, including health, rights and justice and addressing birth, breastfeeding and family planning. The intergenerational life-cycle may help us identify areas where program and policy interventions and be synergized, and rights and justice considered
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