Thursday, December 29, 2011

Sarasota Memorial: Breast-feeding Yes, Formula No

Ever since the breast-feeding incident at a Houston Target store, feeding babies by breast has garnered plenty of comments from folks both for and against feeding in public.
Locally, Sarasota Memorial Hospital has dedicated itself to a pro- breast-feeding hospital for new mothers and recently received funding to purchased donated breast milk.
In Florida, 79.5 percent of mothers have breast-fed their children at one time, according to a 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention breast-feeding report card. Thirty-nine percent of Florida mothers said they breast-fed at six months. Some of these mothers could be seen at Wednesday's "nurse-in" at the Fruitville Road Target.
The national average is 74.6 percent have ever breast-fed. Oregon is the highest at 91.2 percent while Louisiana is the lowest at 48.9 percent.
At one time,

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