breastfeeding isn’t natural
congratulations you've pathologized nipples, medicine is cooked
'Breastfeeding isn't natural, and it makes moms anti-vaxxers' In one of medicine's more extraordinary statements, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is telling health professionals to stop describing breastfeeding as "natural": it could lead parents down the path of alternative medicine, home-schooling and becoming anti-vaccination. The label gives the impression that breastfeeding is healthier and better, say Jessica Martucci and Anne Barnhill, of the medical ethics department at the University of Pennsylvania, who have launched a campaign to stop the positive use of the word 'natural.' Writing in the AAP's journal Pediatrics, they say the term creates "unintended consequences," such as being anti-vaccination. "Studies have shown that anti-vaccination sentiment tends to overlap with reliance on and interest in complementary and alternative medicine, skepticism of institutional authority and interest in health knowledge, autonomy and healthy living practices," they say. "If doing what is 'natural' is best in the case of breastfeeding, how can we expect mothers to ignore that powerful worldvie
