Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts • West Virginia Watch

In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding rates than the statewide average. This data supported funding to offer culturally-adapted peer breastfeeding services in the region. (Courtesy of Laura Norton-Cruz)In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to imp…

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts • Kentucky Lantern

In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding rates than the statewide average. This data supported funding to offer culturally-adapted peer breastfeeding services in the region. (Courtesy of Laura Norton-Cruz)In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to imp…

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts • Georgia Recorder

In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding rates than the statewide average. This data supported funding to offer culturally-adapted peer breastfeeding services in the region. (Courtesy of Laura Norton-Cruz)In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to imp…

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts

In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding rates than the statewide average. This data supported funding to offer culturally-adapted peer breastfeeding services in the region. (Courtesy of Laura Norton-Cruz)In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to imp…

‘My mother said it is not good, so I poured that one away’: a mixed methods study on breast feeding knowledge, perceptions and practices in Ghana’s urban slums

Background: The World Health Organization recommended immediate and exclusive breastfeeding to give the newborn a healthy start. This paper examined breastfeeding knowledge, perceptions, and practices in two large urban slums in Accra, Ghana Methods: Th...