The Office on Women’s Health is updating the publication
An Easy Guide to Breastfeeding. An Easy Guide to Breastfeeding provides information and encouragement to women and their loved ones. It explains the benefits for baby, mom, and society, and also provides frequently asked questions and answers about breastfeeding. This publication is the first among our current series to be updated. New versions for African American and American Indian and Alaskan Native women will also be developed in the near future, as will guides in Spanish and other languages.

Help us choose the new cover by voting for your favorite by clicking this link!

http://www.womenshealth.gov/pub/easy-guide-breastfeeding/vote.cfm

Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc^a, Arnold Reinhold, MBA^b
aDepartment of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and
^bAlliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts

Background and Objective: A 2001 study revealed that $3.6 billion could be saved if breastfeeding rates were increased to levels of the Healthy People objectives. It studied 3 diseases and totaled direct and indirect costs and cost of premature death. The 2001 study can be updated by using current breastfeeding rates and adding additional diseases analyzed in the 2007 breastfeeding report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality… Full Article

Published online April 5, 2010
PEDIATRICS (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1616)

Babies who are fed directly from the breast in early infancy tend to consume less later in infancy than their bottle-fed counterparts, new research suggests.
http://lifestyle.kstp.com/global/story.asp?s=12455916

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