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Cash may get more mothers to breastfeed babies
By Lisa Rapaport Cash incentives may encourage new mothers to breastfeed until their infants are at least six months old, a small experiment suggests. Pediatricians recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed infants until at least six months of age because it can reduce babies’ risk of ear and respiratory infections, sudden infant death syndrome, allergies, childhood obesity and diabetes. For the current experiment, researchers randomly chose 18 low-income Puerto Rican mothers to receive monthly cash incentives totaling up to $270 to breastfeed infants, and compared their feeding habits to another 18 similar mothers who were not offered cash.
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