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Increasing Breastfeeding Duration

Latesa Slone2021-10-20T17:14:55-07:00Categories: Infant Mortality, Healthy Beginnings, Reducing Adult Obesity, Reducing First-Birth Cesarian Birth Rate, Decreasing Diabetes Prevalence, Stories, Reducing Childhood Obesity|Tags: Exclusive breastfeeding, Baby, Infant nutrition, Lactation, Breastmilk, Birth, Mothers, Postpartum, MIHA, Maternal and Infant Health Assessment, Breastfeeding, Infant feeding, Infant|

If 90% of US families could comply with current medical guidelines to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, the US could avoid about $18.5 billion per year in increased health care costs (2014 dollars). 1 The multiple health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for both the infant and mother are well established. Exclusive breastfeeding includes only [...]