Delighted to see this statistic on Yahoo news this morning: The Center for Disease Control reports a 20-year high in breastfeeding among new mothers (albeit, some briefly). Three out of four to be exact.
I belong in the group that zealously maintains you can give no better gift to your child than to breastfeed. Oddly enough, this comes at a time when a 'better than breast milk' canned substitute is out on the market. Organic, it says on the label. Hmmm. Glad they at least steamed off the petroleum used in the process of manufacturing it. My Canadian naturopathic sensei says labor and delivery nurses are calling it the 'diarrhea maker'. I'm hoping that, if I were to look into it further, it might have been pulled from shelves.
The above statistics could be minisculy bumped up if the state of Texas, in its well-meaning but out-of-control zeal, had not removed all children from their polygamist mothers...including nursing infants. Get a grip, Texas. We know it's a complex situation, but don't make the very children you are trying to protect suffer in this way.
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