Abstract. PIP: Islamic law requires mothers to breast feed their children for 2 years. the father must assist the mother in breast feeding the children by providing her with food and clothing. If the father dies or does not live at home, the heir must support the mother thereby allowing her to breast feed her infants.
DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING
Following the teachings of the Quran, Muslim mothers often aim to breastfeed their babies until the age of two years. This refers to the Islamic months—the lunar year—so it will be approximately 22 days before the child reaches his/her second birthday.
Quran 2:233 calls on fathers to sponsor the child's nursing by providing food and clothing for the child's mother for two years, although it allows for earlier weaning of the child by mutual consent of both mother and father. The same verse also allows for motherly breastfeeding to be substituted by wet nursing.
The World Health Organization recommends that all babies be exclusively breastfed for 6 months, then gradually introduced to appropriate foods after 6 months while continuing to breastfeed for 2 years or beyond. Stopping breastfeeding is called weaning. It is up to you and your baby to decide when the time is right.
The decision about breastfeeding and the time of weaning is expected to be a mutual decision by both parents, in consideration of what is best for their family. On this point, the Qur'an says: “If they both (parents) decide on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them" (2:233).
Abstract. PIP: Islamic law requires mothers to breast feed their children for 2 years. the father must assist the mother in breast feeding the children by providing her with food and clothing. If the father dies or does not live at home, the heir must support the mother thereby allowing her to breast feed her infants.
For Muslims the period of postnatal seclusion traditionally lasts 40 days. The religious rituals are performed on the 40th day and these include shaving the child's head, as a vaginal birth is considered unclean. This act permits, what is considered, the growth of 'new' and 'clean' hair [33].
Once she stops expressing the milk, the breasts can stop lactating, till pregnancy happens once more. According to the medical practitioners at AMRI Hospitals, one of the best hospitals in Kolkata, a woman can produce breast milk for twenty, thirty or more years, as long as there is a constant need for it,.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends nursing up to one year and as long as mutually desired by the mother and the child. Studies even have shown extended nursing has great health benefits for the child.
The mother receives the reward of a good deed for every single drop she gives her child. Islamic precepts on lactation influenced Arabian medicine. Avicenna's view that children should be breastfed for 2 years was approvingly quoted by European physicians in the 17th century.
Although breastfeeding someone else's child is permissible in Islam, women who become milk mothers need to understand the effects in Shariah law, especially if they have established milk kinship with the infants. The problem among milk mothers is that they might not know the legal effects in terms of Shariah law.
The Holy Qur'an emphasizes breastfeeding until 24 months of age in numerous verses (such as verse 233 of Al- Baqarah, verse 15 of Al-Ahqaf, verse 14 of Luqman, verse 23 of Nisa, verse 6 of Talaq, verse 2 of Hajj, verses 12 and 7 of Qasas).
In the US, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life and to continue for at least 12 months5. But in other countries, the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding up to the age of 2 or beyond6.
But people should be informed that nursing a 6-7+year-old is a perfectly normal and natural and healthy thing to be doing for the child, and that their fears of emotional harm are baseless."
In Japan, 90% of moms breastfeed until their child is 2 years old. However, according to a UNICEF survey of countries (including less developed nations) on average moms stop breastfeeding when their child is 4.2 years old.
Breastfeeding is the natural way to feed your baby. It's also good for your baby's health and for your health, too. Cleveland Clinic supports and encourages breastfeeding, but the decision to breastfeed is up to you.
Moms over 35 years old don't necessarily have any different or greater complications with breastfeeding than a younger mom would. Having your first baby at or after age 25 (yes, 25!) can increase your risk for breast cancer, but the good news is breastfeeding can actually cancel out that risk.
Galactorrhea is a condition where your breasts leak milk. The main sign of galactorrhea is when it happens in people who aren't pregnant or breastfeeding. It's caused by stimulation, medication or a pituitary gland disorder.
Galactorrhea (say "guh-lak-tuh-REE-uh") happens when a teen's breasts make milk but she is not pregnant. The milk may leak from one or both breasts. Sometimes milk leaks only when the breast is touched.
Myth: Babies who have been breastfed are clingy.
All babies are different. Some are clingy and some are not, no matter how they are fed. Breastfeeding provides not only the best nutrition for infants, but is also important for their developing brain.
Analysis of mother's milk shows that a mother who delivers a newborn does produce colostrum and milk designed to meet the needs of the newborn, even though the mother is still nursing a toddler. This offers the desired advantages for the newborn but no adverse consequences for the older child.
Liqaa'aat al-Baab il-Maftooh (86/question no. 17). To sum up: Caesarean section should not be resorted to except in cases of necessity, when natural childbirth is not possible, or it poses a danger to the mother or the child. And Allaah knows best.
The agreed upon minimum duration of pregnancy is six months whereas the maximum length was subject to strong disagreement given the lack of any relevant instruction in the Qur'an and the Prophetic tradition.
In Pakistan, chilla (چله) is a traditional postpartum practice in which women receive relief from household work, additional familial support, and supplemental food for up to 40 days postpartum.