New Support for Breast-Feeding

"One can learn, at least.  One can go on learning until the day one is cut off." - Fay Weldon in Down Among the Women

New Support for Breast-Feeding

Calling human breast milk "uniquely superior" to infant formula, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released its strongest set of recommendations ever to encourage breast-feeding based on new research which underscores the value of this practice.  The new recommendations include urging mothers to sleep close to their babies to facilitate feeding, to avoid the use of pacifiers during early weeks, and to breast-feed exclusively for six months.

In publishing these new standards, AAP also challenges society to support breast-feeding by enacting legislation to protect it, setting expectations in the workplace, and considering it in custody settlements.

To view the complete set of AAP recommendations, go to:
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/feb05breastfeeding.htm

The Beginnings Workshop on "Child Nutrition," addresses the promotion of breast feeding.  To review and order this resource,  go to: http://mail.ccie.com/go/eed/0532

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