This document discusses various cultural perspectives on feeding infants and young children. It addresses issues such as breastfeeding, responsibility for how much a child eats, self-feeding, and resolving conflicts between individualist and collectivist approaches. The key differences discussed are that individualist cultures encourage independence and choosing one's own food from a young age, while collectivist cultures aim for interdependence and have adults fully feed children for longer. The document suggests helping parents understand different perspectives without judgment and coming to their own solutions.

1. Olga Velazquez ~ Diversity issues around feeding a
infant.
Lucila Avina ~ Brest Feeding an infant.
Katie Trinh ~ Taking the responsibility of the amount
the infant is eating.
Ana Gomez ~ Self feeding a infant.
Marlene Magana ~ Suggestion for reasoning conflicts
on over feeding an infant.

2. Diversity issues around feeding a infant.
Collectivist Individualist
 Nutrition Service focuses on
promoting specific behaviors,
such as increased physical
activity and increased fruit and
vegetable consumption, which are
associated with lower risk of
obesity. Nutrition education
offered through school programs
in Team Nutrition and increased
availability of fruits and
vegetables in the school setting
are designed to increase
exposure to a variety of foods,
promote healthy eating and,
ultimately have an effect on
reduced weight.
 Between independent variables and
the binary outcome of intention to
breastfeed for pregnant women and
ever breastfed for post-partum
women. Multiple logistic regression
models were used to assess the
association of a priori exposures of
interest and breastfeeding.
 30.1% show that pregnant women
that plan on Brest feeding that are
single rising parents that are the
percentage

3. Breastfeeding an Infant
 In the world of health the organization [WHO]
recommends mothers exclusively breastfeeding infants
for their six months to archive optimal growth,
development and health. Around the world Disparities in
breastfeeding also exist within racial groups.
 Cultural backgrounds has identified as a possible
explanation for the differences seen within racial groups
based on an individual’s cultural environment. The trends
and beliefs of culture tend to influence the decision to
breastfeed.
 However in many poor parts of the world where water is
not clean food may scarce and formula expensive,
breastfeed can make a critical difference in children’s
health well-being and life experience.
 In my own experience I breastfeed my three children and
the three of them are healthy and strongest.
Additional note to
know

4. CULTURALDIFFERENCESINBREASTFEEDING
 Studies have shown that
individual's perceptions
and attitudes towards
breastfeeding are
correlated with initiation
and sustainment of
breastfeeding
 Cultural background has
been identified as a
possible explanation for
the differences seen within
racial groups based on an
individual's cultural
environment

5. Taking or not taking…
Individualist Collectivist
 Baby will eat when they are
hungry.
 The parents don’t face the
problem of urging their
children to eat. However they
face the food to offer.
 Children may not have
enough amount for their
body.
 Malnutrition may effect the
children.
 Parents , teachers and
caregivers urge or force
children to eat.
 The parents worry is the
amount of food get into their
children.
 The way of hungry may not
the same as developing
children.
 The baby may become
dehydrated and end up in the
hospital.

6. Taking responsibility for
the amount that a child eats
 Conflict between taking or not taking
responsibility for how much children eat.
 Many cultures value healthy children are
more attractive and desirable than a child
that doesn’t look healthy.

7. Anecdotal note
Individualist ( 2 years old boy) Collectivist ( 5 years old boy)
 He fed by himself with half of
the spoon.
 He swallowed fast, however
he put the food into his
mouth slowly. He chose the
food to eat.
 Food dropped around his
area.
 He stopped eating , when he
felt full.
 He felt relax after eating.
 His mom fed him with the
whole spoon.
 He swallowed slow.
 It was clean around his area.
 His mom urged him to finish
the bow and he had no choice
to choose the food.
 After eating, he felt
uncomfortable and wanted to
vomit.

8. Early self-feeding
INDIVIDUALISTS COLLECTIVISTS
 Encourage children to do
things on their own.They
focus on making children
feel like special individuals.
They teach children at a
young age so that they
don’t have to depend on
adults
 They believe in firmly
attaching the child to the
group.Collectivists aim for
interdependence.They
feed them longer than
individualists and also put
their coats on and even zip
it for them.

9.  Is it that important to issue about it when
right or wrong.
 If that gets to the point let it go and look at
the parents perspective.
 Help the parent articulate his or her goals.
 when the parent comes to understanding
that their with or without your effects on that
matter if the issue is that they come up with a
solutions for there own better being.