Is Breast Best?: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

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231 Index Ad Council, 108–110, 111, 116– 117, 118, 120, 182n45, 189n11 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 28, 132 Alexander, Duane, 181–182n38 American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 157n3 American Academy of Family Physicians, 28, 75, 111 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 28, 84, 91, 154– 155n14; on breastfeeding, xi, xiii, 11–12, 20, 21, 28, 33, 37, 39, 100, 107; formula industry and, 12, 110, 179n10; and National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign (NBAC), 109–111, 130, 179n9, 181–182n38; on sleep positions, 89–90, 175n78 American Association of Health Plans, 153n5 American Cancer Society, 145 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 76, 78, 94, 111, 153n5, 174n58, 176n92, 181–182n38. See also obstetricians. American College of Radiology, 174n58 American Dietetic Association, 153n5 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 25 American Medical Association (AMA), 3, 10 American Public Health Association (APHA), 111, 115 Apple, Rima D., 154n4 Arney, William, 7, 8, 123 artificial feeding. See formula feeding asthma, 21, 29, 32, 38, 109, 126, 132, 185n90, 186n96, 186n102 attachment parenting, 84 Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child (Granju), 179n9 At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (Blum), 13 autism, 82, 91, 173n43 Avishai, Orit, 14 babies, 86–91; colic in, 100– 101; and sleep positioning, 86, 89–90, 175n78. See also SIDS; total motherhood Babies “R” Us, 88, 89, 90, 99 The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Baby from Birth to Age 2 (Sears), 95, 174n51, 176n95 The Baby Killers (pamphlet), 11 Bartick, Melissa, 134 Beato, Cristine, 130 Beck, Ulrich, 50–51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 104–105, 168n17. See also risk culture Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 91–92 Bergman, Abraham, 167n22 Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding , 108, 189n10 Blum, Linda, 13, 14, 15, 99, 119, 127–128, 149, 156n47 bonding: mother-baby, 20, 22, 94, 96, 104–105; parentbaby , xiv, 149–150 Boston Globe, 41 bottle feeding: See formula feeding breast cancer, 56, 95, 119, 165n93, 169n63, 176n93, 190n19 breastfeeding, xi-xvii, 1–5, 14, 163n61; advocates and advocacy , xi, xv-xvi, 10, 11–12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 31, 33, 36, 47, 50, 94–104, 110, 122, 123–124, 134–135, 136, 141, 142, 146, 148–149, 155n31, 177n114, 188n148; African American mothers and, 12–13, 14, 101, 108, 114, 127–128, 131, 133, 147, 150, 182n43; American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on, xi, xiii, 11–12, 20, 21, 28, 33, 37, 39, 100, 107; and antibodies and immunity , 33, 38, 40, 107, 143, 167n21; and asthma, 21, 29, 32, 38, 109, 132, 145, 185n90; behavior associated with, 16, 22, 24–25, 26–31, 32–34, 35–37, 39, 43, 44, 92, 93, 95, 100, 115, 130– 131, 142, 145–146, 150; 232 Index breastfeeding (continued): benefits attributed to, xi, 14, 21–22, 24–31, 33, 38–39, 68, 95, 109–110; and birth certificate documentation, 100; and bonding with mother, 22, 96; and breast pumps, 13, 98, 99, 126, 128, 129, 148, 149, 150, 187n112; and citizenship, 135–137; and class, 1, 12– 13, 14, 17, 27, 30–31, 44, 98, 128, 129, 136–137, 149, 150, 187n112, 188n148; contaminants in breast milk, 35, 98, 121–122, 184n76; cultural aspects of, xiii, xiv– xv, 98–99, 127–128; in developing world, 10–11, 33, 107, 153n12, 163–164n64; and diabetes, 22, 29, 40, 93, 109, 111, 115, 119, 130, 132, 134, 142, 145, 165n90; dietary recommendations for, 100–101; doctors and, xv-xvi, 1–5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 100–101, 130, 148; and ear infections (otitis media), 28–29, 31, 32, 38, 39, 109, 111, 115, 124, 130, 131, 145, 131, 160n34; as a fateful moment, 68, 105; and feminism and feminist scholarship on, xiii, xvi, 12– 16, 148–150, 153n11; and gastrointestinal infections, xii, 16, 18, 22, 31, 32, 33–34, 43, 109, 111, 121, 125, 143, 145, 153n8, 164n65, 169n65; government promotion of, xi, 18–19; 50, 68–69, 106, 107–137, 142– 144, 146–147, 149–150, 151, 153n4, 181–182n38, 187n130, 190n23; and guilt, 14, 131, 136, 187n112; 187n130, 188n148; in hospital , 99; and milk banks, 108; and intelligence and cognitive development, 18, 21, 22, 27–28, 32, 34, 35–36, 39, 40, 43, 68, 93, 101, 109, 110, 114, 145, 164n66; maternal depression during, 102–103, 106, 123, 178n127; medication during, 101; and middleclass mothers, 1, 13, 14, 30, 99, 128, 144, 149, 150, 187n112; and milk production , 100, 101, 103...