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Article: Certified lactation counselor at Pomerene Hospital works to encourage breastfeeding
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- March 4, 2007
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By JUNE CHANDLER-WHITE
Staff Writer
MILLERSBURG -- A mother of four, and a registered nurse, Raquel
Miller said she will always regret not breastfeeding her eldest
child.
"I had worked in the hospital and seen moms struggle those first
few days trying to get babies to nurse. I thought, 'You know, I am
not going to put myself through that,' and I decided not to nurse
him," said Miller, whose children are 11, 8, 6 and 19 months.
Now a certified lactation counselor with the Holmes County Health
District, Miller is working to help other moms avoid making the same
mistake she made with her firstborn. She's secured a $3,000 grant
from the Canton Regional Area Health Education Center to help ...