Transcription of Bringingnaturetothefore - Biological Nurturing
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Thisartic le has two aims:first,to give anhistoricoverview of the nature-nurturedebatein relationto howmo therslearnto br overview will relatehowthe nurture pe rspective cameto dom inateour understandingof the ontogenyof br ea secondai m is to pr oposepro fessionalbreastfeedingcom petenciesin an attempt to integratethe natur e perspectivewithinearlybreastfeedingsuppo rt . Theseare underdevelopmentandwrittenwitha vie w to stimulatingpeer revi ewan d onIn 1955 ,Ma vis Gunther,awell-knownEng lish obstetrician,published alandmarkresearchpaper in which she statedcat egoricallythat modernmothers lacke dbreastfeedinginstincts. Gunther(19 55)the orised that mimicry,not instinct,info rm shomo sapiensan dother primateshow tobreastfeedth efirst baby. She based thisnotionon her clinicalobservations,toge th erwith rep or ts of the inabilityof zoochimpanzees to togeth er,the se su gge st ed that the dep rivationof th evisual breastfeedingexperience in childh oodleads to maternalrejectionof the offspringand omazoologicalperspe ctiv e, mimicryisaprotectiv eresemblanceof one animalspecies (the mimic)to anot her (the model)orto part of the is abi ological strategy,the functionof which isco ncealment,ent rapmentor cam
Competingbreastfeeding arguments Gunther’s(1955)mimicrytheoryabout breastfeedingbehaviourswasfirmly anchoredwithinthe‘nurture’sideofthe debate ...
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