Celebrate Breastfeeding Week

August 4, 2008

This is World Breastfeeding Week, from August 1 through 7. Put together by the World Health Organization and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, this celebration encourages moms to breastfeed—and only breastfeed—for the first six months of a baby’s life. Today, though, only 4 babies in 10 get such a breastfeeding beginning.

A press release related to this celebration adds:

… governments must ensure that infant formula marketing never seeks to persuade mothers that products could possibly be equivalent to breast milk.

So moms, do your best to breastfeed. To learn more, visit Breastfeeding.

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