but structural barriers to breastfeeding. Those barriers are particularly high in the Black community and in Southern states, where breastfeeding rates are lower.
“Breastfeeding is a reproductive choice issue,” said Kimarie Bugg, the founder and CEO of Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere a national organization based in Georgia that aims to decrease racial disparities in breastfeeding. “We know there are long-term health benefits to a mother, a child, a family, and society if a woman is successful breastfeeding.”
Black people have the lowest rates of breastfeeding initiation among all racial groups in the U.S., according to a 2015. People who breastfeed less are usually young, low-income, Black, unmarried, and beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children .
There’s also a geographic disparity, as Southern states overall have a lower rate of breastfeeding than the nation as a whole. According to the CDC’s latest
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