Wednesday, August 10, 2005

The Medical Minute: Breastfeeding -- all natural, all the time

Natural foods and medicines have been popular for some time. So why is it only about 70 percent of American women feed their new babies the most natural way, by breastfeeding? At five months, only a third of mothers continue the practice. With the exception of the British Isles, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, almost all women in the world breastfeed their infants at birth.

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