Dear Lactnet Friends:

The Centers for Disease Control collect data on breastfeeding: exclusivity,
initiation, and duration, using the standard definitions.

WIC collects information too; but their definition of exclusive
breastfeeding is means that a mother does not get any formula from WIC.

Here's more WIC definitions:

"Breastfeeding means the practice of feeding a mother's breast milk to her
infant(s) on the average of at least once a day.

Breastfeeding women means women up to one year postpartum who are
breastfeeding their infants."

Gabrielle Palmer has a lovely chapter in her 3rd edition of the Politics of
Breastfeeding about WIC corruption by industry.

warmly,

-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
Author:* Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy*
www.nikkileehealth.com
https://www.facebook.com/nikkileehealth

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