UGA study focuses on working moms, breastfeeding wgauradio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wgauradio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hospital Rules Boost Breastfeeding, But at What Price? miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>Breast is best, or so the campaign launched by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But regulations encouraging breastfeeding may come at a steep price, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220201">new study</a> found that state hospital regulations aimed to encourage breastfeeding, such as requiring a lactation consultant on staff, increased the likelihood that new mothers would start breastfeeding by almost 4%. The regulations also increased the probability that the women continued breastfeeding through the first year of their children’s lives by as much as 7%.</p>