Tag: Breast Feeding

Breastfeeding Rates Continue To Grow

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Breastfeeding Rates Continue To Grow
Breastfeeding Rates Continue To Grow: CDC Cites Latest Report Card Statistics, Showing More Women Choosing To Breastfeed Usually these days if you reads a story about breastfeeding, it involves some benighted busybody fussing over a woman who has the temerity to care for her baby in the way that mammals have done for millions of years–in public. That’s always the kicker, isn’t it?… Read the rest

CNN article concern-trolls promotion calling breastfeeding natural because it may make other things–like vaccination–seem less so

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CNN article concern-trolls promotion calling breastfeeding natural because it may make other things–like vaccination–seem less so
Martucci and Barnhill state: “...we are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants...Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination.”