Supporting Breastfeeding Families in Early Care and Education (ECE) Programs

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2020–2025 recommends that:
  
  • Infants are exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months of life.
  
  • Infants continue breastfeeding along with starting appropriate solid foods at about 6 months of age.
  
  • Infants continue breastfeeding for 1 year or longer.
  
  Despite this recommendation, only 1 in 4 mothers reports breastfeeding exclusively through 6 months.
  
  CS 330253-C August 10, 2022
  
  breastfeed-ece-082022-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Breast Feeding Child, Preschool
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b2af1962de2e4e3fb3a35b41d70a9e3df4124a60f9b1ed45d1d9e1e95cef390b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158742/cdc_158742_DS1.pdf
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