Here is part of an abstract I got in email. I've highlighted/underlined the part that I thought was really awesome, uniquely worded, especially "human infant support system". Wow.
Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC

Journal of Women's Health
Volume: 20, Number: 12 December 2011

Michelle G. Brenner, M.D., IBCLC, and
E. Stephen Buescher, M.D.
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Pediatrics, Norfolk, Virginia.

Abstract

Hospital breastfeeding initiation rates (75%) show that most mothers in the United States want to breastfeed and are trying to do so. Even from the very start, however, mothers may not be getting the breastfeeding support they need. Low breastfeeding rates at 3, 6, and 12 months illustrate that women face multiple additional barriers to maintaining breastfeeding. What can we do to help more mothers be more successful? As healthcare providers, we need to be believers that breastfeeding is worth the effort. Perhaps most important for us is to realize that human milk is not simply a food but rather a complex, human infant support system. We can then articulate to families the importance of breastfeeding as a clinical imperative, a preventer of acute and chronic illness and disease.





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