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[ID] 705 [Interest Areas] Breastfeeding Coalition Representative Community Organizer Concerned Citizen Health Care Provider Health Professional Organization Lactation Professional Nonprofit Organization [Comment] The Everyday Miracles program of doula care for low-income women in Minnesota has an 88% breastfeeding rate; other doula programs around the country have similar high rates of breastfeeding if doulas meet prenatally and postpartum with mothers. Doula care increases the rate and duration of breastfeeding. Mary Kroeger with Linda Smith have written the definitive summary of the Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding in their book of that title. To increase breastfeeding we need to demedicalize and normalize childbirth for most women. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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