Your Health: Breastfeeding

In this Your Health segment, nurse midwife Jenifer Fahey, and Cheryl Holden, a nurse and lactation consultant, both at the University of Maryland Medical Center, discuss the medical science behind breastfeeding and why breastfeeding can offer health benefits to infants. Also part of the discussion, the barriers to successful breastfeeding many U.S. mothers face, and how Maryland hospitals are giving mothers the information, confidence and skills to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding.