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Breastfeeding Finds a Medical Home

Monday, April 28, 2025

There’s no money to study breastfeeding or provide care. There are packs of angry influencers and others on social media ready to vilify anyone who addresses it in clinical terms. Perhaps most dispiriting of all is that breastfeeding is so misunderstood in the medical community; problems encountered during breastfeeding are too often misdiagnosed and mistreated.

That’s according to a group of mostly female experts who, despite these obstacles — and also because of them — are persisting in their quest to further a novel lactation subspecialty in women’s health, offering physicians board certification. 

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