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Article: ROSS MOTHER'S SURVEY: BREAST-FEEDING RATES INCREASE FOR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
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- PR Newswire
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- June 7, 1995
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Geographically, Mountain and Pacific Regions Lead
the Nation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The most recent findings of The Ross Mother's Survey, the nation's largest survey of infant-feeding patterns, indicate that breast-feeding in the United States increased for the fourth consecutive year in 1994.
Last year:
-- 57.4 percent of new mothers breast-fed their babies in the hospital, the highest in-hospital rate since 1985.
-- 19.7 percent of all new mothers were still breast-feeding at six months, the highest at-six-months rate since 1987.
-- the geographical areas with the highest rates ...