Magda has asked about US breastfeeding statistics that are not provided by a formula company. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) now?collects this data which can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/NIS_data/data_2004.htm. It differs from Ross data as you can see in the exchange below.

Ruowei Li, MD, PhD, Natalie Darling, MPH, Emmanuel Maurice, MS, MA, Lawrence Barker, PhD and Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, PhD Breastfeeding Rates in the United States by Characteristics of the Child, Mother, or Family: The 2002 National Immunization Survey PEDIATRICS Vol. 115 No. 1 January 2005, pp. e31-e37 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/115/1/e31

Alan S. Ryan, PhD More About the Ross Mothers Survey PEDIATRICS Vol. 115 No. 5 May 2005, pp. 1450-1451 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/115/5/1450-a

We should make sure that when we quote breastfeeding data that we use the CDC data and stop using formula-company supplied information. Also, Ross Products has now changed its name to Abbott Nutrition.

Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA
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