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Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the mmmmmmmm-lunch! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In 2013, 81.1 percent of U.S. mothers said they started out breast-feeding their baby. That's up from 75 percent in 2008, and 70 percent in 2000, according to the CDC.

[...] 52 percent of U.S. mothers said they were still breast-feeding their infants when the babies were 6 months old, and 30 percent said they were still breast-feeding when the babies reached 1 year.

How should society handle breastfeeding in public and the workplace? Should there be any restrictions on the age of the child?

Breastfeeding has obvious benefits for a child's development, but breast milk is also a fluid of the body that can carry disease.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-still-breastfeeds-daughter-aged-4881835

http://www.livescience.com/55846-breast-feeding-mothers-united-states.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:06PM (#392699)

    The point is that men are entitled to feel uncomfortable with women breast feeding in public and women need to just accept that.

    So only men are uncomfortable with breast feeding? Or are you projecting? It's the latter of course (duh!). Breast feeding is not a big deal. If the baby is hungry, whip out that titty! I'm not gonna complain and neither do real men.