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[ID] 430 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen [Comment] The employees that work with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program should be educated about the benefits of breastfeeding and required to encourage breastfeeding FIRST to poor women seeking assistance during their pregnancy and for the 1st 6 months of their babies' lives. These employees often only have a breast pump to loan, but have no idea (nor believe) that breastfeeding is best. Moreover, I think the policy allowing formula to be given as a WIC benefit should be revisited, because poor women should NOT be seeking to feed their babies with formula first when breastfeeding is the most economical way to feed a child. [Topic] 
Access to Lactation Care and Support
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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