Monday, August 07, 2006

O.C. hospitals rank low on breast feeding (OCRegister)

Three local hospitals rank in the bottom five in California for feeding formula to newborns and not encouraging enough mothers to breast-feed.

A new study of breast-feeding patterns at hospitals statewide found more than 90 percent of babies born at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Garden Grove Hospital and Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center receive formula instead of, or in addition to, breast milk while still in the hospital.

Typically, getting babies to breast-feed in the hospital is key to longer-term breast-feeding which, in turn, promotes childhood health.



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