Bakersfield's Babies Not off to the Healthiest Start
In a community this size, with over 11,000 births recorded in 2012, we clearly need to get the breastfeeding patterns under control. Half of the babies born in Kern County are no longer exclusively breastfeeding by the time they leave the hospital - that's an average of 24-48 hours after birth. Even more babies lose their exclusively breastfed status on…
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