Other, probable risk factors are alcohol intake, physical activity (protective), and breast feeding (protective).
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The questionable proposition remains: is breast feeding something that only a woman can do?
The minister also answered questions on prescriptions policy, funding for Epilepsy Wales and increasing breast feeding rates.
Some additional fat is stored during pregnancy to provide a reserve for breast feeding when the baby is born.
Exceptions are women who are pregnant and breast feeding, bodybuilders, athletes and patients.
And remember, while breast feeding has always been preferable, there's a better reason than ever to do so today.
Breast feeding also resulted in a change in microbes, with formula-fed babies showing more Peptostreptococcaceae bacteria and Clostridium difficile.
Instead, they argue, this is the effect of researchers only publishing breast feeding studies when they have a positive result.
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After struggling to make breast feeding work, she switched to formula feeding - and instantly felt more bonded to her baby.
La Leche League meetings are well attended and everyone has a breast feeding fanatic friend or knows a pushy lactation consultant.
"Honestly, having gone through my experience of six months of breast feeding, I feel like I don't blame any woman for not even trying to do it, " she said.
"A lot of times the laws shape the culture, and one of the biggest challenges to breast feeding is culture, " said Ms. O'Connor, who also is a spokeswoman for the group.
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According to Dr. Deborah Campbell, director of the division of Neonatology at Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, the new system will give health staff an opportunity to reinforce the medical benefits of breast feeding.
Paige Arthur, a 41-year-old Boerum Hill mother, said that when she gave birth in January and her son was in the NICU, the nurses stuffed him with formula and one even criticized her for breast feeding.
Now, the wig out point for most people is eighteen months to two years if someone is breast feeding and doing it in public can be an issue no matter how young the child is, she says.
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He said there were also "major areas of challenge" including disappointing breast feeding rates, large variations in preventable tooth decay in children, high death rates from lung diseases and a large amount of preventable cancers and cardiovascular disease.
Since that question can only be answered affirmatively, is that fact enough that prohibition of that act is not gender discrimination outlawed by Congress? the New York judge says Congress should prohibit discrimination based on breast feeding if that was its intent.
That's what a breast-feeding doctor -- an OB, pediatrician or family physician with a subspecialty in breast-feeding medicine -- would have done in Kelly's case: a complete physical and medical history (yes, in fact, it is relevant if your mother couldn't make milk) on mom and baby to see if any physical or anatomical factors were affecting supply.
Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear: Breast-feeding offers broad protection against both major types of breast cancer in women of all ages.
Health insurance companies need to reimburse doctors for the time they spend attending to breast-feeding issues, to cover galactogogues, and to cover donor breast milk for women with lactation failure.
And at three months, 79% of the formula group was exclusively breast-feeding, significantly more than the 42% of moms in the group originally instructed to breast-feed.
Some experts think it's because a woman is less likely to ovulate while she's breast-feeding.
There were years, he says, when there was literally nothing said about breast-feeding at all.
"It's kind of crazy that only 20% of people reach the recommended duration of breast-feeding, " says Flaherman.
The group's co-founder, Trysta Chavez, said the photos were meant to promote World Breast-Feeding Week in August.
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Testosterone goes down for some women after the delivery, and breast-feeding releases the hormone prolactin, which inhibits arousal.
The Washington National Guard has criticised two servicewomen for being photographed in military uniform while breast-feeding their babies.
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National Guard spokesman Captain Keith Kosik told the BBC that there was no regulation against breast-feeding in uniform.
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"When most of the people who are currently leaders were in training, breast-feeding was really uncommon, " says Stuebe.
Promoting breast-feeding, for example, costs very little and is proven to save lives.
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