Feldman, Elizabeth wrote:
>
> Greetings - I am a breastfeeding-friendly family doc in Chicago - I am
> trying to get some further information on the Kaiser-Permanente of NOrth
> Carolina data on health care costs saved by breastfeeding. Somehow in my
> files I have this information about their "internal research" showing that
> babies breastfed for a minumum of 6 months saved $1435 in healthcare costs,
> based on the cost of doctor visits, antibiotics and hospitalizations.  Has
> anyone replicated this? Where is the original citation? Couldn't find it in
> the Archives.  I am trying to get the publication cited by Deb Tobin on "THe
> Potential Health Care Cost of NOt Breastfeeding" from Best Start, but have
> not gotten through to them yet. We are trying to justify our FREE employee
> breastpump rental program at Ravenswood Hospital, and need these numbers and
> their reliability! Thanks, Liz Feldman
>
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Keep up the good work!! I don't have he numbers but, I bet someone out
there does.

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