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Core Message     Protect Your Health. Prevent Disease. English Summary Sheet Spanish Summary Sheet Fact Sheet Go To Next Core Message >     Breastfeeding provides many benefits both to mother and baby including bonding time, cost savings, and better health.  Protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding are critical public health needs.  Although, many types of interventions have been implemented in the United States and elsewhere to try to increase breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity, duration, and more work needs to be done to improve the acceptance and practice of breastfeeding. To learn more about breastfeeding, check out the links below. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…Breastfeeding Breastfeeding…Best for Baby. Best for Mom. Mothers Room at DHHS Nebraska Breastfeeding Coalition Does breastfeeding reduce the risk of pediatric overweight? Nebraska State Indicator Report Card Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) in Nebraska For more information, contact the NAFH staff at (402) 471-2101. Documents in PDF format require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free from Adobe Systems, Inc.