Showing posts with label black women and breastfeeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black women and breastfeeding. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 02, 2014

African-Americans may be getting inferior breastfeeding advice

Mothers who give birth in areas with higher concentrations of African-Americans are less likely to get breastfeeding support on maternity wards than mothers in other communities, a new study shows.

Breastfeeding provides well-documented health benefits to infants and their mothers. But African-American women are about 16 percent less likely to nurse their newborns than white women, according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The study of 2,727 American hospitals and birth centers sought to uncover the reasons for the racial disparities.

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