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A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia and Florida State University finds that state hospital regulations aimed to encourage breastfeeding, such as requiring a lactation consultant on staff, increased the likelihood that new mothers would start breastfeeding by almost 4 percent. The regulations also increased the probability that the women continued breastfeeding through the first year of their children’s lives by as much as 7 percent.
However, mothers who chose to breastfeed significantly increased their time spent on child care, leading many to reduce...