Friday, June 02, 2006

Dr. Mom talks breast feeding to several area professionals (Fort Morgan Times)

An educational opportunity for health care professionals to learn more about the overall importance of breast feeding for women took place Tuesday at the County Steak-Out.

Marianne Neifert, M.D., also known by many as Dr. Mom, held a public discussion to explain how to implement prenatal hospital routines that promote breast feeding to more than 20 area doctors, physicians and health care professionals.

Neifert, who is an expert in lactation management and co-founder of the Lactation Program at Rese Medical Center in Denver, said that while she is proud of breast feeding's success rate in Colorado, it has been the rural areas where fewer women are practicing the procedure.



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