“We cannot continue to ignore the harms that aggressive exclusive breastfeeding promotion causes. If we fail to safely feed an infant in the pursuit of exclusive breastfeeding, we can permanently take away their future potential. We can take away their ability to pass fourth grade math, their ability to go to college, their ability to hear, to see, to speak, to think, to walk or to live an independent life. Starvation-related brain injury is a mistake that can never be reversed. The only way to protect all newborns is to give all mothers the whole truth, the real risks and benefits of their feeding choices and how to recognize and prevent unacceptable and irreversible outcomes.”
— Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D., Co-Founder of the Fed is Best Foundation
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