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[ID] 578 [Interest Areas] Lactation Professional [Comment] Lactation information should be a required part of all medical education- in medical school, chiropractic school, nursing school, and in all programs training dietitians. As a lactation professional, I understood ignorance 25 years ago but there is NO excuse for ignorance today. There are too many pediatricians that have no knowledge about breastfeeding, do not want to help mothers when problems arise, and feel that formula is just as good. That is just plain wrong. There are too many infants who do not get help from medical caregivers if they have ankyloglossia because pediatricians rely on old information and refuse to believe that this can destroy breastfeeding sometimes. Because they don't care, and don't care to learn new information, breastfeeding is lost. [Topic] 
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Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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