Breastfeeding is an influential factor on public health, providing dynamic nutrition and immune protection for infants and physiologic benefits for mothers. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the ...

Breastfeeding doesn’t always come easily to a new parent, human or otherwise. Fortunately, support can sometimes arrive from some unexpected places. And when employees at the Metro Richmond Zoo in ...

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Mothers sometimes struggle to breastfeed, and Zoe, a 14-year-old orangutan, was no exception. She had been orphaned at nine months old at the Metro Richmond Zoo, when her own mother had died ...

All 21 Intermountain Health hospitals in Utah with labor and delivery departments have received a five-star rating for being breastfeeding-friendly facilities from the Utah Department of Health and ...

Caron and Magnolia were there to celebrate the opening of South Portland’s new outpatient donor milk dispensary and depot, ...

The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) helps hospitals give breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence, and skills they need to successfully start and continue breastfeeding their babies.

Feb. 27 (UPI) --In an effort to promote the benefits of breastfeeding for infants, the Department of Health and Human Services announced prize winners for its Reducing Disparities in Breastfeeding ...