...Although Baca and Torrez hold nutrition classes and Baca counsels mothers-to-be and mothers about nutrition, Baca's current efforts are in breast-feeding infants.
"She is truly an advocate for breast feeders," Torrez said of Baca. Torrez has also acted as a Spanish interpreter for their clients.
"We give pumps [to mothers]," Baca said. She was on the Breast-feeding Task Team for WIC this year, which received bids from pump manufacturers. A typical pump costs WIC $500, she said, which is not only nutritionally beneficial to the mother and infant, but it is also a cost savings of nearly $600 for the two government agencies that help administer the program -- the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the New Mexico Department of Health.....
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