What's a "baby-friendly" hospital? Apparently, there is only one in Montana, and it's in Anaconda. It's reasonable to wonder why this designation is important.
It's important because more than 1 million infants worldwide die every year because they are not breastfed or are given other foods too early. In the United States, thousands of infants suffer the ill effects of infant formula.
Among the many benefits of breast-feeding to infants in the industrialized world are: decreased risk of SIDS, diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections, allergic skin disorders; and higher IQ shown in school-aged children who were breastfed as infants. For breast-feeding mothers, benefits include a decreased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
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