Call to Breastfeeding Action - Policy and Practice for Nurses
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 13:32
in Health & Medicine
The lack of breastfeeding in the United States is a public health crisis, according to U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin. The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the professional organizations to recommend that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life. In some parts of the world, breastfeeding infants can me the difference between life and death.