育児の選択肢
What's up, amazing people?
This is IYASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami.
In this radio, we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
This is IYASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami.
In this radio, we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
So, we don't have a specific article today, so we will have a Hashiasume conversation.
I have prepared a topic, but before that, I just thought of something.
Our Ryukyu-1 opening.
The opening of our Ryukyu-1 opening.
I have been thinking about how to preserve Shimakuteba.
There are many things that everyone is doing.
There are things that I am doing at university, and there are things that I am doing at my personal level.
Recently, I have been using AI tools a lot.
Sometimes, I wonder if there is a way to organize dialects on a website or an app.
Yesterday, I thought about it several times.
Jun was watching it too.
The way to preserve the language is not to leave tools to make it easier to learn.
It is important to have tools that are actually used.
Both are necessary.
In order for everyone to be interested in learning tools,
I thought about whether to go online or to the side that offers books.
I thought about whether to learn dialects so that I can speak English.
Even though I can speak English so well,
I don't think I can't speak dialects.
I don't think my parents will teach me either.
So, I think it is better to teach properly.
I don't want to teach my parents.
When I ask my parents to teach me dialects,
they say,
Why?
This is not something to be taught.
This is different for each person.
But it's not a lingo.
I understand not many vocabularies,
but I know how to say like,
but, because, so,
like this.
What is this?
I forgot Japanese.
Tsunagi kotoba.
When I hear it, I can understand it.
Sometimes it comes out naturally.
If you work hard, it will come out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, you know,
I don't use English on a daily basis.
But when I record a radio show,
I try to use it.
I understand.
It's important to try to use it.
It's important to increase the amount of time I spend using it.
And I also do listening and speaking.
But I don't think it's like other parents' generation.
I don't think it's something to be taught.
Maybe it's the same as Japanese.
It's a mixture of the two.
The word is Japanese.
What the parents are talking about now.
The last syllable of the word is all dialects.
Like,
Yeah, like,
If you mix it up, it might be the first step.
That's true.
In short, it's a more difficult word.
It's not a phrase, but it's like a kanji.
It's like, what is that?
In short, it's like a ru-o-shi-wa.
You mix it up and try to speak it.
I try to speak it.
I try to speak it to my parents.
I say, no, that's not it.
If I'm wrong, they'll fix it for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, you know,
Kanet and Minami can speak English because they understand it to a certain extent.
Only those who understand it to a certain extent can speak dialects.
In short,
It's possible.
The parents are alive.
So, if you think about it for about 30 years,
it's possible.
Because English hasn't been done for 30 years, it can come this far.
Yesterday, Jun was watching me speak in dialect.
I can understand Japanese, so I can speak it.
If I listen carefully, about 30% of it is in Japanese.
I agree. But I want my child to be bilingual in English and dialect.
So I need to be able to speak my own dialect.
No matter how much information I have,
I think I want to speak English because the people who speak it are cool.
But I love Okinawa, so I want to leave my language as my identity.
I know it's important to leave it as a culture,
but I don't think it's meaningful to leave it as your identity.
I don't think it's good for marketing.
You need something that makes people think it's cool.
You don't have to go as far as Shima-Kutuba, but Uchina-Guchi?
I don't know what to say.
I don't know about Shima-Kutuba, but I like it.
It's a mix of different things.
There are a lot of people who do sanshin and speak dialect.
People who sing.
I think people who sing are cool, so I think it's easy to learn.
I think so, too.
It takes time to become perfect,
but if you take it one step further,
I think you'll get closer to the dialect.
Well, the local Yankees are already at that stage.
Well, I thought about it.
I used to think about leaving something,
but I decided to put it in my head.
That was a side note.
I was talking to Akane earlier today.
It's the end of the month, so any topic is fine,
but I was wondering if you had any recent problems.
It may not be a problem,
but it's so hard to choose
母乳育児とミルク育児の選択
whether to raise a baby with breast milk or milk.
The right information from the internet or in front of people,
like how the mom should feed the baby between milk or...
What do you call breastfeeding in English?
Breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding.
Since I became pregnant and after giving birth,
especially its first baby,
I get so much information,
and there's a lot of different information about raising kids
with milk or breastfeeding.
There's a lot of different information, right?
But in the end, I already started working,
so it's very difficult to do 100% breastfeeding.
So I feed her milk, too.
I felt a little bit guilty about it at first
because a lot of information said breastfeeding is better
until the baby becomes six months.
That's what people say,
but it's a little bit difficult in terms of lifestyle,
and I want my dad to participate in raising a baby,
so I feed him milk.
Right now, I feed him about two cups of breast milk.
How was it right after you were born?
It's been about three months since you were born.
A lot of hospitals recommend breastfeeding,
but it depends on moms if they have enough breastfeeding or not
after giving birth.
So I basically feed him milk and breastfeed him until he's six months.
That was my first week in the hospital.
I started breastfeeding when I was about to leave the hospital,
and I breastfed for the first ten minutes,
and then I fed him milk.
I've been doing it mixed from the beginning.
But other moms, when they're in the hospital,
the second or third person,
it's probably easier to breastfeed,
and before you're born, you're already full.
There are people who have enough breastfeeding.
But even if you don't breastfeed,
if you massage him all the time,
you should be able to breastfeed.
You're raising your dad.
So in the first month,
you have to use a regulator.
If you breastfeed him physically,
it's easier for him to get his uterus back.
I felt directly about this contraction.
At first, when I breastfed him while he was in the hospital,
my stomach would hurt more and more.
And while I was breastfeeding him,
my uterus was getting smaller.
So it's better to breastfeed him first
to get his body back.
So it's better to breastfeed him
to get his body back?
Maybe.
But it's tiring to hold him and breastfeed him all the time,
and it makes him sleepy.
I knew it would be easier to breastfeed him.
But since it's a skin-to-skin interaction,
母乳育児の利点と欠点
if you breastfeed him,
he looks like he's more at ease.
That's true.
Let's start with a scientific approach.
The benefits of breastfeeding are
optimal nutrition balance.
As Akane said,
I recommend breastfeeding up to 6 months after birth.
Breastfeeding contains DHA, lactoferrin,
and oligosaccharides,
so it supports the development of the baby's brain and intestinal environment.
Also, it increases the immunity.
In terms of high nutritional value,
the skin-to-skin interaction that Akane mentioned earlier
helps the growth of the baby.
It also helps the growth of the baby's hormones.
It also prevents the mother from giving birth.
That's what it says.
That's true.
Breastfeeding increases the rate of uterine contraction,
and the recovery is faster.
On the other hand, the disadvantages of breastfeeding are
affected by the mother's physical condition and stress.
Lack of sleep and malnutrition affect the quality of breastfeeding.
It makes it difficult to get back to work.
Continuous breastfeeding is necessary,
and it affects long-term outings and work.
Breastfeeding pain is a problem.
Nipple pain, in other words,
problems such as bad breasts.
Yes.
It's true that breastfeeding affects work a lot.
Yes.
At first, breastfeeding is done once every three hours.
The baby's stomach is small,
so you can only drink a small amount of breast milk
and get up right away.
But it's really once every three hours,
so I don't think I'll be able to sleep for six or seven hours.
For a while.
I need to sleep for at least seven hours.
Yes.
That's why breastfeeding is tough.
Do you think there's a lot of moms who use a breastfeeding machine?
If they prefer 100% breastfeeding,
they don't want to feed them milk,
when their parents take care of the kids,
or when dad takes care of the kids without mom,
I think they use breastfeeding.
At first, I didn't breastfeed for about a month after I was born.
Then I started to breastfeed a lot,
and my T-shirt got wet.
I couldn't adjust it.
But from the middle,
it became a mechanism for the baby to drink.
So I bought a breastfeeding machine,
but even if I breastfed too much,
the risk of breastfeeding increased because I breastfed too much.
I was told that I didn't need a breastfeeding machine at the hospital.
At that time, I understood the meaning of breastfeeding.
So it's meaningful.
Yes.
If you're made from blood,
if you don't have enough iron,
or if you don't have enough water,
breastfeeding should be bad for you.
I feel that myself.
I started to eat meat more than before.
And I'm conscious of drinking.
I don't drink much in winter,
but I'm conscious of drinking.
When I don't drink much,
breastfeeding can be bad for me.
Also, the number of times I drink has decreased,
so the amount of breastfeeding is also reduced.
So I feel like I'm a human being when I'm breastfeeding.
I can understand my own mechanism.
When I heard about the breastfeeding machine,
the main character is a lawyer.
In the office?
Yes.
I think there are a lot of scenes where the breastfeeding machine comes out
in Tokyo drama.
I haven't seen many people around me using it.
I was wondering if they would use it.
I found out about it.
I think if you don't breastfeed, your chest hurts.
Breastfeeding every time.
Not just for the feeling.
It's not a detox for the body.
There are people who feel better that way.
They just produce milk a lot.
Then your breast will be packed with milk.
It gets hurt.
母乳の困難と役割
That's why you need a breastfeeding machine.
Makes sense.
I think so.
I don't think it will be like that in the future.
I think breastfeeding will be 100%.
Depending on which balance you want to do,
your mother's condition will change.
Breastfeeding is really hard.
It hurts, you can't sleep, you get a fever.
It's not a place to raise a child.
When I heard that,
I thought it was really hard to breastfeed.
Breastfeeding is painful.
I really don't want to say boobs.
I don't think so.
I don't know how to say it.
There are times when it's really uncomfortable,
both in the normal state and before and after the period.
It's hard to think of it as the highest level.
The first child has an immune system.
Zero-year-olds seem to have a harder time catching a cold.
It's because they're immune from their mother.
So breastfeeding is like a supplement.
It's a role.
国ごとの授乳率
It's a role.
So I think it's better to let them drink a little more than 100% milk.
So they can breastfeed.
WHO and UNICEF recommend a six-month complete breastfeeding.
It depends on the country.
The six-month complete breastfeeding rate in Japan is 45.9%.
Almost half.
It's 25% in the US.
17% in the UK.
Sweden and Australia are over 60%.
It depends on the country.
And I'm watching the American drama,
so it's 25%.
So I don't think it's necessarily better to breastfeed.
If that country has eq or not.
If you have like a year off,
probably most of mom wants to feed breastfeeding.
Because they have more time and more time with kids.
But if they need to start working,
it's very hard to control doing breastfeeding with doing work.
So I think it's better to breastfeed.
In terms of cultural differences,
Japan has a relatively high breastfeeding rate,
but formula feeding is more common in Western countries.
In the US, it's more common in Congo.
But in the North,
the reason why breastfeeding rates are so high is because
there's a lot of support.
So if they can't do breastfeeding,
they want to,
if they get support from work or the country.
But I think the US doesn't really support the moms.
ミルク選びの難しさ
Yeah, because if you do breastfeeding,
you don't have to buy milk,
so you can save money, too.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to sterilize,
put it in, and prepare hot water and water.
You just take it off and give it to them.
So it's easy.
You can breastfeed anywhere, even in a car.
That's true.
So it's easy,
but it's something that only moms use.
If you need,
what is it?
If you want, like,
same,
what is it?
How do you say it?
If you want to do the same amount of breastfeeding as your parents,
you have to make time for your dad to do the milk,
otherwise you won't have time to do the breastfeeding.
Yeah, especially at first.
That's true.
But choosing what milk
is really hard at first.
Like, where do you buy that milk?
Supermarket?
Or, like, a kid's store?
Like a drugstore.
How many types do they have, usually?
Usually, Japanese milk products,
it's like 6 or 7.
It's pretty famous.
At first, I would get a sample from the hospital,
but I didn't know anything, so I just used it.
My kids don't like or dislike anything,
so they drink anything.
So it's not a problem,
but depending on the baby,
they may or may not drink this.
At first, everything was already there,
so I did it.
I did a lot of research,
and I found out that Japanese milk
has a lot of genetic mutations.
So if you're a kid who can't eat solid food,
and only drink milk,
乳製品の比較
I think you want to add something good.
I wanted to stop genetic mutations,
but all Japanese milk products
have genetic mutations.
So that's the standard in Japan.
Yes, yes.
I found organic ones from Australia.
There's no milk that only uses
genetic mutations from overseas.
It costs double the price compared to Japanese ones.
So I thought it would cost a lot of money.
It depends on whether you buy it or not.
It doesn't have to be an organic milk,
but why can't Japan produce the milk
without food additives?
So it's better to have them?
The taste?
Yes, if you taste it,
I don't know.
The one from overseas uses grass-fed milk.
I felt like it had a lot of milk in it.
The Japanese one was a little sweeter
and easier to drink.
So I thought it was easier to drink.
I've tasted my own milk,
but I felt like the Japanese milk tasted closer.
I don't know if Japanese milk products
and breast milk are the same,
but I feel like the fat from the rice culture
and the fat from people who grew up in the US
are completely different.
母乳の認識の変化
Maybe they're different.
I don't know.
I don't know what I've eaten before.
Does it taste like cow milk?
It's sweeter than cow milk.
It's lighter and more watery.
Like rice milk?
Maybe it's closer to rice milk.
Maybe it's because I'm Japanese.
I don't know.
I don't know if it has anything to do with it.
I don't know.
Somebody tell me about non-Japanese breast milk taste.
But of course,
it's all different because it's the fat from individuals.
It's a little different.
Also, before giving birth,
everyone was like,
it's mysterious to give breast milk.
You can post it on Instagram.
Like, I made baby formula with my own breast milk.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to show that on video?
The liquid that came out of me.
That's what people post on Instagram, right?
No?
If there are people like that,
I was embarrassed to post it on my own breast milk.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Is it posting it on public places?
It's posting it on public places.
I was embarrassed to post it on my own breast milk.
But when I gave birth,
that feeling changed.
I'm really doing it as a child's food.
I don't have that kind of sexuality image anymore.
It's like a necessary thing.
I can understand the feelings of people who are doing it now.
It's the first time I've ever experienced breast milk coming out of my body.
I think it's amazing how my body is mysterious.
And the baby doesn't have to tell me that.
It's like I need it.
It's instinct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I see that, I feel like I need it.
When I give breast milk.
I don't know if I'm breastfeeding or not,
but I think the way we touch and love each other will change.
母乳育児のプレッシャー
Yeah, maybe.
There was a story about how milk from overseas has different ingredients.
I think there's a lot of breast milk myth in Japan.
In Japan, breast milk is necessary.
I've seen that there's a lot of pressure on breastfeeding.
Akane, do you ever feel like you should breastfeed?
Do you ever feel like there's a lot of pressure?
Is there anything you're worried about?
In my case, my parents or other friends or relatives don't say anything about it.
They don't force me to do breastfeeding.
So I don't feel stressed about it.
But I feel like I should breastfeed because I have the ability to.
There's a pressure on me.
If I didn't have a job, I'd have more time to breastfeed.
And you can't make breast milk with milk.
You can only make it with breast milk.
You can't drink medicine.
母乳育児の意義
I saw a video of breast milk killing bacteria.
I thought breast milk had a lot of immunity.
I want to breastfeed when I can.
I'm thinking about preventing colds.
I agree.
Do as much as you can.
If you can't, it's the same as now.
I don't rely on technology.
I don't think it's good to be stressed.
I have to work.
It's hard to balance.
As a baby, I want my mom to be with me all the time.
But if I do it 100%, I won't be able to live my own life.
I have to work.
I agree.
You have to do as much as you can.
Even if it's free, it's stressful.
If you're stressed,
Babies have a lot of absorption from birth to age.
If you think about it, your voice, facial expressions, and heartbeat are all received.
Breastfeeding is one option.
You can talk to them happily.
You can spend time with them in a good state.
You don't have to listen to each other's voices.
Even if they don't respond,
I think it's better to create that state.
I think it's different from raising breast milk with a tired face.
That's a really good point.
You've been with them for a long time.
That's right.
I've been with them for a long time.
I think it's better to take a break.
公共の場での授乳
The difference between Japan and overseas is that
In Japan, breastfeeding in public places is a bit of a negative trend.
In the US and the UK, breastfeeding in cafes and parks is legal.
But in Japan...
I think it's hard to do.
For example, if you go to a mall, it's easy to go because you know there's a breastfeeding room.
But in a restaurant, there's no place like that.
I can't do it.
I've never done it before.
I'll hide it in my car.
Even if I don't like it, it's milk.
I think so.
I think the number of times I go out will decrease.
Especially if it's a train life.
I just remembered about breastfeeding in public places.
My teacher is one of the teachers who wears Hawaiian traditional clothes.
She was a little wealthy.
She just finished her maternity leave and came back.
I was talking to her.
She guided me around Hawaii.
About an hour later, I saw a baby coming out of the clothes.
Huh?
There was a baby in the clothes.
Yes.
It was a really small baby.
I had just been born.
Apparently, she was breastfeeding at some point.
I didn't notice it at all.
Huh?
There's a baby.
She was a good size.
The baby looked like this.
It was amazing.
She was breastfeeding the baby in front of me.
Yes.
It was a moment when I felt proud.
She breastfed the baby in front of a Japanese student.
I didn't even realize there was a baby in the clothes.
I was surprised.
I don't know what to say about that outfit.
In Western countries, it's like,
It's like, you're the one who's watching.
What the fuck are you looking at?
In Japan, it's just a meal scene.
I don't think anything.
I don't think anything.
If you look at it from the point of view of a person who has never given birth to a child, you'll be surprised.
On the contrary, it's reassuring to be in a place where mothers are gathering.
There are a lot of people who understand that kind of thing.
It doesn't have to be just breastfeeding.
It's like a bar or a restaurant.
It's reassuring to have a child.
You can speak out.
That's right. There are a lot of places like that in Okinawa.
You can make it with the milk you brought.
I'm a little nervous when I'm the only adult.
That may be true.
Certainly.
Okinawa is still open to children.
Yeah, that's right.
So I feel a lot of things when I give birth.
There are a lot of scenes where I feel like,
This is how people who raised me felt.
The amount of information in me has exploded since I was born.
It's what I do.
So I feel like I've changed to a different person.
Yeah. You became a mom.
Yeah.
But it's really different.
There are a lot of people who raise them close to me.
Even if I'm a little involved, I'm not raising them together for 24 hours.
You can only raise one child.
There are times when you only feel like a mother.
Yeah, that's right.
育児の文化と母乳の重要性
So in Japan, there are a lot of breastfeeding recommendations.
In the United States, there are a lot of people who go back to work early.
I think it's a culture that says, if you're born, you have to leave work early.
It's a rule that allows freedom of choice.
If the government and local governments become more supportive of raising children,
I think there will be a lot of people who say,
I'll do it if I have time to breastfeed and raise children.
That's right.
Well, it's the same with breastfeeding.
Some people are older than their parents, and some people have a stomachache and want to breastfeed.
Some people say, I gave birth to my own child, so I'll do it with my father.
There are a lot of conveniences now.
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but if you only think about the bad things,
It's a bit of a pressure to keep it as it is now.
But at the same time, it's a bit of a problem that Akane doesn't know because she has too much information about breastfeeding.
Maybe, if you already experienced giving birth and you already have one or two kids,
you already have knowledge of what is good or bad for kids because you already experienced it.
But if it's the first baby, everyone says different things and you search a lot of things,
and you don't know the answer.
You need to decide what is good for you and your baby.
I feel like I have to make the basics first.
In the end, what I'm doing is right.
I think it's the second or third person, but I think the first person is really difficult.
From the moment I was born, I feel like I'm responsible for everything.
I think it's easy for mothers to blame themselves and worry,
but I think if you have a few kids, you'll feel like you're raising them yourself.
That's right. At first, it's overthinking, oversearching, and over everything.
But I'm still worried.
That's right.
The most common cause of breastfeeding is sudden death.
Breastfeeding dies without any cause.
You can prevent it with this.
For example, when you're sleeping, don't put stuffed animals or towels around you,
or don't let them crush you.
Give breast milk.
There's a prevention, but the cause is unknown.
You have to think about whether that prevention is right.
You do what you can, but you have to think about whether it's fate.
Otherwise, you can't sleep with peace of mind every day.
That's right.
It's different for babies.
I'm still a baby.
I don't know what to do when I'm sleeping.
At first, you don't know what kind of creature it is.
So a few weeks after you're born, you suddenly wake up and go to see if it's alive.
I wonder if it's alive.
There were a lot of times when I was glad it was alive.
Do you sleep with it now?
I'm sleeping in the room next door, so I don't sleep with it.
I want to sleep with it, but I think it's going to crush me because I have a bad sleeping habit.
It's too small.
It's scary.
I don't do laundry.
I'm afraid I'll suffocate in my own bed, so I don't sleep with it.
But I think people who sleep like that are sleeping together.
Sleeping and breastfeeding.
It's the same with the difference between breastfeeding in Japan and the United States.
日本とアメリカの睡眠習慣の違い
The difference between Japan and the United States is how much babies and children sleep together.
Japanese families sleep together all the time.
That's right.
When I get a little older and start saying I want to sleep together, I think I'll sleep together.
I think I'll sleep together for years.
So I don't think I'll have time for my husband and wife.
But I want time for my husband and wife, so I think it's better to let them sleep in another room.
But there are times when I want to sleep with a cute child.
I have to think about it while doing various things.
Also, I think it's about making a house.
In the United States, there are a lot of rooms.
The house is big, too.
You have to make a child's room.
But in Japan, there should be people who can't make a child's room.
I think that's part of it.
We all have to sleep together, or we can rent a separate room.
There are people who say, let's make a room when we're in elementary school.
That's right.
There are places where we all sleep together.
I don't think it's a violation of children's independence.
Maybe it's a Western idea.
After all, when puberty comes, everyone will leave on their own.
I think so.
I think it's a happy thing to sleep while you can sleep together.
Yeah.
母親たちの体験
I was sleeping.
Akane was sleeping with me until I was in junior high school.
I think so, too.
But I think I started sleeping alone when I was in junior high school.
I don't remember.
Yes.
It was almost a story about breasts and dialects.
But there are still a lot of mothers out there.
There are mothers in my family, too.
I don't think I've ever talked to them this slowly.
I think I'll understand if I experience it.
I don't think I've ever talked to them this slowly.
Thank you for telling me about my father's situation.
Yes.
There are more situations, so I'll talk to you again.
Please follow the order and tell me about your mother's situation.
Yes.
Yes.
Bye.
Bye.
