Incredibly sad premature birth article.  There is no mention of WIC or
breastfeeding here.
Judy Ritchie

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/200967.html

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The first thing you notice is how tiny they are: Row upon
row of babies, some no older than this day, hooked to grotesque jumbles of
tubes. Press your palm against the incubator wall and the infant inside
disappears from view. 
It takes awhile for something much sadder to occur to you: In a room full of
newborns, dozens of them, there is no crying. The sound of beeping heart
monitors, the rustle and murmur of observing doctors, but no crying.
"They're too small and too sick to cry," explains a passing nurse.
This is the newborn intensive care unit of the Regional Medical Center of
Memphis, universally known around this city as The Med, perhaps two miles
from the blues clubs and rib joints of Beale Street.
And these are the children with a fighting chance.

Snip

A 2002 federal report put this city at the top of the list for infant deaths
in American cities: 692 dead babies over a four-year span, a rate of more
than 15 deaths for every 1,000 births, more than twice the U.S. average.

Broken down by ZIP code, centering on the poorest places in this very poor
city, there are spots where babies die at a higher rate than they do in some
Third World countries (though some health officials say those figures are
small enough to call their statistical significance into question).

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