By Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
When
local nurses rave about the advantages of breastfeeding over infant formula,
they sound like they could go on endlessly.
Breast
milk passes along antibodies from mother to child, said Jennifer Boone, the
certified lactation counselor at the Christian County Health Department. It
decreases risks of cancer. It nurtures the brain. It improves night vision,
said Jennifer Rush, a lactation counselor at Jennie Stuart
Medical Center.
“What
else would help with night vision?” Rush said.
Nevertheless,
in the most recent data available, from 2007 to 2009, only 38 percent of
newborns in Christian County were breastfed, the University of Louisville
reports.
