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Breasts Feeding (Nursing), Basic Information and CDC Resources. From the CDC July 2008
 

 

 

About CDC.

CDC is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public’s health.

In order to achieve these goals, CDC utilizes an evidence-based policy and environmental approach to breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support. CDC’s breastfeeding activities cover a wide range, from conducting and supporting research about breastfeeding to evaluating and sharing information about existing strategies to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. CDC also works closely with partners and organizations working to improve breastfeeding across the country.

Breastfeeding: Ideal for Infants
Both babies and mothers gain many benefits from breastfeeding. Breast milk is easy to digest and contains antibodies that can protect infants from bacterial and viral infections. Research indicates that women who breastfeed may have lower rates of certain breast and ovarian cancers.

The Hospital's Role in Breastfeeding Support

 

Breastfeeding-Related Maternity Practices at Hospitals and Birth Centers – United States, 2007


MMWR, June 13, 2008 / 57(23);621—625
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Research has shown that what happens in the hospital or birth center plays a crucial role in establishing breastfeeding and helping mothers to continue breastfeeding after leaving the birth facility. This study of nearly 2,700 birth facilities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico asked birth facilities about their practices and policies in caring for women who choose to breastfeed their newborns.
Results of the study show that many US birth facilities are using maternity practices that are not evidence-based and that can be detrimental to breastfeeding. By identifying and changing maternity practices so they are supportive of breastfeeding, birth facilities have the opportunity to help families meet their breastfeeding goals, help improve breastfeeding initiation and duration, and to improve maternal and child health outcomes throughout the US.

 

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Breast Cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast cancer).

Breast cancer is a cancer of the breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females - affecting, at some time in their lives,
approximately one out of thirty-nine to one out of three women who reach age ninety in the Western world.
It is the second most fatal cancer in women (after lung cancer), and the number of cases has significantly increased since
the 1970s, a phenomenon partly blamed on modern lifestyles in the Western world.

Today, breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to be a result of damage to DNA.

The risk of getting breast cancer increases with age.

Alcohol generally appears to increase the risk of breast cancer.

Other known risk factors and personal characteristics include personal or family history of breast cancer, high breast tissue density,
earlier onset of menstruation (8 years or younger), later menopause (55 years or older), late first-term pregnancy (25 years or older),
no children or no breast-feeding, early or recent use of oral contraceptives, more than four years use of hormone replacement therapy,
postmenopausal obesity, alcohol consumption, exposures to secondhand cigarette smoke and exposure to ionizing radiation.

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