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Breastfeeding makes head way.

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At last, some good news about breastfeeding rates. The National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign cites an increase in breastfeeding in the United States from 2004 to 2005, based on a national survey of almost 1,000 people. This news was released at the beginning of World Breastfeeding Week in August of 2005. The survey shows that more Americans endorse breastfeeding and are more accepting of women breastfeeding in public. The survey also reflects that men in particular have become more aware and supportive of the benefits of breastfeeding. Some of the statistics gathered in the survey, which was funded and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, show that:

* In 2005 69% of men were comfortable seeing a baby breastfed in public compared to only 59% of men in 2004

* 63% of men responded that they would be willing to have their own baby breastfeed in public, up from 53% the previous year

* 67% of women and 62% of men felt that breast milk is the best food for a baby, an increase of 7% and 12%, respectively, from 2005

* 59% of women and 65% of men agreed that babies should be breastfed exclusively for their first 6 months of life, an increase of 5% in women and 12% in men from 2004.

And in November, 2005, on the 15th anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding, signed in Florence, Italy in 1990 by...

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