The Center for Disease regulate an...

The Center for Disease regulate and Prevention (CDC) now has state-by-state data in succession the percentage of mothers who are breast-feeding their babies and for in what manner long, according to an Aug 5 2004 moderns release from the CDC. The American Academy of Pediatrics commends that babies be fed simply breast milk for the first six month of life. An average of solely 14.2% of US women exclusively breast-feed their babies for at least six month Oregon is the alone state with an exclusive breast-feeding rate of more than 25% at six months

The of recent origin breast-feeding data were gathered as part of the CDC's 2003 National Immunization observe which surveyed mothers in the United States, the District of Columbia, and pick outed geographic areas within the states. The take a view of revealed that six states--Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington--met all of the following objectives for breast-feeding:

* 75% of recently made known mothers initiate breast-feeding;

* 50% continued to breast-feed for at [east six months; and

* 25% continued to breast-feed for at least 12 months

Fourteen states achieved the 75% initiation rate, and eight states met or surpassed the objective of 25% of mothers continuing to breast-feed for at least 12 month The scan also confirmed previous findings that lower-income mothers and non-Hispanic African American mothers had consistently tower breast-feeding rates.

CDC's recently made known State-Specific Breastfeeding Data Will Help States Better Target Programs (new release, Atlanta: Center for Disease govern and Prevention, Aug 5, 2004) http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r040805.htm (accessed 17 Aug 2004)

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