- Even as more U.S. mothers are breastfeeding their babies, a new study suggests the gap in breastfeeding between black and white infants is widening.
"In the United States, implementation of practices that support breastfeeding is lower among maternity care facilities in neighborhoods with larger black populations, suggesting disparities in access to hospital support for breastfeeding," Li said by email. By 2015, exclusive breastfeeding rates ranged from as low as 17.2per cent for black babies to as high as 29.5per cent for white infants and 30.1per cent for Asian babies,
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