Support Our Breastfeeding Initiative
Breastfeeding is a public health game changer. It is low cost, low tech and seldom requires any durable medical equipment, drugs, or infra-structure. It does not discriminate: it improves the health of both boys and girls; healthy or sick; premature or full-term, rich or poor.
Breastfeeding protects our infants
from an increased risk of:
- type II diabetes
- obesity
- asthma
- certain forms of leukemia
- ear and gastrointestinal infections
- SIDS
- impaired neurodevelopment
- necrotizing enterocolitis
Women who breastfeed
reduce their risk of:
- pre-menopausal breast cancer
- ovarian cancer
- type II diabetes
- hypertension
- hyperlipidemia
- cardiovascular disease (recently determined to be the MOST costly women’s health condition in our country)