According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black mothers in particular, disproportionately experience a number of barriers to breastfeeding.

Black women have the lowest breastfeeding initiation rate of all racial groups at less than 70 percent.

In honor of Black Breastfeeding Week . which ran through Thursday and ends today, Charlotte Dorsey, Community Progress Council’s Women, Infants, and Children Education Manager

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