A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health shows that even when hospitals encorage new mothers to breastfeed, those same hospitals sometimes do things that increase the chance the babies will end up drinking formula instead. See entire article here. Basically, trained maternity nurses who should have been taught “Breastfeeding 101″ at school [...]
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I wonder if Hannah Rosin would have gone out of her way to make a case against breastfeeding if she was Canadian? Would she have felt the same tied down-ness during her paid year long maternity leave north of the border? Or would she have insisted on going back to work and let her husband take [...]
