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

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, @06:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:25PM (#392709)

    One of those things can be planned for and the other can't.

    So we can plan when kids get hungry? My wife will be happy when I tell her that tonight - maybe she can actually start getting some sleep on a regular basis. Some nights our youngest (almost 3 months) only wants to eat once overnight. Others he decides he is starving at 11PM, 1:25AM, 2:15AM, 3:15AM and then finally sleeps till 6.