Categories: Birth Location

A startling fact on how to save 900 babies lives a year!

Well, maybe it isn’t surprising to us that if 90% of U.S. women breastfed their babies for the first 6 months of their lives that over 900 babies lives would be saved, not to mention Billions of dollars.

What is startling is that we haven’t been using this information earlier to help increase the number of moms who breastfeed.

I think one of the best ways to do this is require every nurse who works with new moms be trained Lactation Educators!   Some nurses are great at helping moms breastfeed and some are NOT!

I was amazed at how much I learned in my 3 day CAPPA Lactation Educator training.   Yes, it costs money to train nurses, but think of the lives and money that will be saved overall!

Read more about this here.

Sheridan

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