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Black and Hispanic donors are particularly underrepresented, study shows

Breast is best, or so the campaign launched by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

<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 als...

"...the US has really focused on pushing breastfeeding as a goal, but we have done that without thinking through all of the relative costs..."

Increased breastfeeding comes at expense of mothers’ careers, new study finds.