Laurie says,
 
I am happy to hear of the overall increase in US national bf  rates.
However, I am sorry to report that in my corner of Mississippi,  initiation
of any bf is between 40 - 50 Percent.>>
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I truly am having difficulty  getting terribly excited about statistics when 
they have a sample size  purporting to be representative of the entire US of A 
over a two year period of  time when the sample size is 434 out of what would 
have been 8,000,000 births  during that time.  I don't know a lot about 
statistics, but it seems to me  that the sample should be something more than 
0.00005 of the recorded number of  births.
 
Susan -- maybe you  could  comment?  And Laurie, maybe they didn't talk to 
anyone in your necks of the  woods???
 
Jan -- just a bit cynical in  Wheaton, IL.





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