Naomi said,

<<  The question is why is this the only information on this? THis is
 something that the government should have good data on. I don't know
 what is the right office, perhaps CDC, or one of the many offices in
 the Department of Heatlth and Human Services that deals with maternal
 child issues. >>

While that is true, when the dept. of Health & Human Services commissioned the
role delineation study on bf health providers several years ago, they decided
to use the Ross Labs bf stats because they'd rather not spend our tax money on
figuring out bf stats.  Besides, the government will not do it every year -
maybe, if we are lucky, once every 10 years, like the census.

Sigh.

So, for better or worse, we are stuck, unless someone has megabucks that wants
to do bf stats nationally on an ongoing basis.  Certainly, it would be simple
to get some stats on the birth certificate, but it would only give info for
that moment in time....

Jan Barger, who is in cloudy Santa Maria, CA, and who is going to be seeing
Lactnetters Lisa Marasco and Anna Swisher tomorrow!!!  Yeah!!!