The Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition recently completed a series of three YouTube videos designed to motivate, educate and inspire moms to keep breastfeeding after returning to work. Each video brings together clips of real moms telling their stories about how and why they continued breastfeeding after going back to work, the obstacles they encountered, the strategies that helped them succeed, and the outcomes they enjoyed — from health to bonding — and how their employers benefitted too.
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.
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Melissa Bartick, MD, MSca, Arnold Reinhold, MBAb 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 breastfeedingrates were increased to levels of the Healthy People objectives.It studied 3 diseases and totaled direct and indirect costsand cost of premature death. The 2001 study can be updated byusing current breastfeeding rates and adding additional diseasesanalyzed in the 2007 breastfeeding report from the Agency forHealthcare Research and Quality… Full Article
Published online April 5, 2010
PEDIATRICS (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1616)
