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Breastfeeding Continues to Increase Into the New Millennium

To update reported rates of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding through 2001 and to compare rates in 2001 to those from 1996. The Ross Laboratories Mothers Survey (RLMS) is a large, national survey designed to determine patterns of milk feeding during infancy. Questionnaires were mailed each m...

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Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Breast feeding
Breast Feeding - statistics & numerical data
Breastfeeding & lactation
Demographic aspects
Educational Status
Environment. Living conditions
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Forecasting
Forecasts and trends
Health aspects
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Infant
Infant Food - statistics & numerical data
Infant nutrition
Infant, Newborn
Market trend/market analysis
Medical sciences
Milk - statistics & numerical data
Parity
Pediatrics
Population Surveillance
Prevalence
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
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