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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would this be related to purchasing formula through WIC? After the first year babies drink whole milk not formula.[/quote]

The statement is not exclusively about breastfeeding in the second year.

"White, Hispanic or Latino and Asian families initiate breastfeeding at higher rates than the Black population in the United States, according to the 2018 National Immunization Survey (NIS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Similar disparities are also seen among mothers with low income (participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children [WIC]); younger women ( younger than 20 years); and those with a high school education or less. The policy statement calls for addressing implicit bias, structural bias, and structural racism to eliminate disparities in breastfeeding and improve the health and well-being of all children and families."
https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2022/american-academy-of-pediatrics-calls-for-more-support-for-breastfeeding-mothers-within-updated-policy-recommendations/

I wish they would put all the energy they are putting into breastfeeding and redirect it to maternal and infant mortality.[/quote]

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