Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Local lactation specialists now on-call

When Deanna Becker had her third child, she wanted to try natural breastfeeding.

But she had had problems breastfeeding her first baby, and she didn't even try with her second.

"No one in my family breastfed," says Becker, now a mother of five and an incoming student in the University of Montana nursing program. "If you can't turn to your family, who can you turn to?"

With her third, she walked into the WIC office and asked for help - and breastfeeding the rest of her children went smoothly.

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