Transcription of Health & Safety Notes Supporting Breastfeeding Families
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Supporting Breastfeeding FamiliesHealth & Safety NotesHuman breastmilk is the best food for infants and contains ingredients that formula could never du-plicate. Scientists and nutritionists describe it as a living biological fluid with over 80 identified ingredients that include antiviral, antiparasitic, anti-bacterial, and many other protective factors, most of which cannot be replicated by formula companies. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strong-ly recommends that Breastfeeding be the preferred feeding for all infants, including premature new-borns. The World Health Organization recommends human milk as the exclusive nutrient source for feeding full term infants during the first six months after birth.
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