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Breastfeeding still too low in Georgia, report says
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Georgia still lags behind the national averages on infant breastfeeding rates, a newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report card shows. In 2011 — the latest year the data were available — 79.2 percent of newborn infants started breastfeeding nationally, the report says. The Georgia rate was 70.3 percent, slightly up from the 68.2 percent rate the year before.
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