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[ID] 1231 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen [Comment] It is important for the United States of America to take a lead in the promoting of an understanding of breastfeeding. When I breastfed my daughter in the 1970s, there was not a lot of support for breastfeeding in restaurants, public places, or the workplace. Today that is still the case. Doctors need to be trained to support breastfeeding and they need to discuss this with their women patients. The media needs to start approaching the female breast from the perspective of its function in providing quality food for offspring. We have no problem showing cows nursing their young, but humans are viewed as somehow different. People also need to be educated that breastfeeding should not automatically be stopped at 6 months. Finally, policies should be in place that promote breastfeeding and child welfare. This includes paid maternity leave of at least 12 weeks and facilities on site at workplaces for onsite childcare so that mothers can continue to breastfeed and for pumping so that nursing mothers have a clean and safe environment for pumping. [Topic] 
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