According to the HealthDay Reporter, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Women's Health are holding a conference to get more women to breast-feed.
By the time their babies were 6 months old, only 32 percent of women were still breast-feeding in 1999, compared with 43 percent in 2005-06. And by the time the babies were 1 year old, the number had declined even further: to 15 percent in 1999 and 22 percent in 2005-06.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization recommend that mothers exclusively breast-feed their infants for the first six months of life and then continue the practice with other nutrition thereafter.
Public policy push such as this will also encourage physicians, nurses, midwives, and dullas to openly discuss breastfeeding with their patients. It's about time.
Elly Hann
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