Friday, July 01, 2005

Breast is best, nurses say

TOBE Adamson doesn't know it yet but he's one of the babies benefiting from Moyne Shire's Maternal and Child Health nurses efforts to promote breast feeding.

The eight-week-old baby's mother, Penny Adamson, plans to continue feeding her third child, contributing to the 55.1 per cent of babies who are breast fed until they are at least six months old.

The figures are a success story for Maternal and Child Health nurses Sian Burman, Phyllis Walsh and Sandra Swan and much higher than the levels of breast feeding recorded than other south-west municipalities.



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