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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Statement on Breastfeeding

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organiccarrotcake · 19/07/2011 12:24

www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/RCPCH%20Position%20Statement%2020.06.11.pdf

Always interesting when it's the doctors who come up with this stuff as their opinions have a lot of clout (which is why those who undermine BFing are so dangerous)

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Yesmynameis · 19/07/2011 12:54

"If all UK infants were exclusively breastfed for six months, admissions to hospital due to diarrhoea would be halved and those due to respiratory infections would fall by a quarter."

Wow, this is the stuff they need to put on those breastfeeding posters

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