Hi Jacquie

We must be thinking similar advocacy thoughts!  I recently asked another
list about this quote.  A kind colleague sent me these words, attributed to
James P Grant, former Executive Director, UNICEF:

"Breastfeeding is a natural "safety net" against the worst effects of
poverty.  If the child survives the first month of life (the most dangerous
period of childhood) then for the next four months or so, exclusive
breastfeeding goes a long way toward canceling out the health difference
between being born into poverty and being born into affluence .... It is
almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first
few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and compensate
for the injustice of the world into which it was born."

Pamela
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