Study: Lack Of Breastfeeding Costs Lives

Study: Lack of breastfeeding costs lives

If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

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