Health News from Medical News Today: Breast Feeding More Successful And Longer Lasting If Mother Has Proper Maternity Leave

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Breast Feeding More Successful And Longer Lasting If Mother Has Proper Maternity Leave 30 May 2011, 6:00 pm It is all very well telling mothers to breastfeed their babies for at least six months, but asking them to do so while trying to cope with a full time job, looking after the baby and other family and personal commitments is unrealistic and naïve. Experts wrote in the journal Pediatrics that US national breastfeeding rates are still short of the Healthy People 2010's original goals. The researchers found that 74.2% of women who had at least 13 weeks of complete maternity leave started their babies on breast milk, compared to 64.6% of those whose maternity leave was between 1 to 6 weeks... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.