One Harvard study suggest that the natural mother's milk infant formula 900 children annually in the U.S. alone from death and save the country financial losses of 3.6 billion dollars (PEDIATRICS online April 5, 2010, Spiegel online 05.04.2010). Melissa Bartick of Harvard Medical School, the lead author of the study: " We conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases, their risk factors, according to the Agency for Health Care to increase Research and Quality with low breastfeeding rates: Necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospital stays due to infections of the lower respiratory tract, atopic dermatitis, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, asthma and childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes, lack of sufficient data is not considered) and obesity in children. Women should have the chance to start immediately after birth with breastfeeding, said Bartick. Often newborns in the hospital, however, would have fed on artificial milk. In the U.S., twelve percent of all babies are six months fed only breast milk, as recommended by the World Health Organization. In Germany, the last national survey showed in 1998 a corresponding arrest rate of ten percent, a recent study from Bavaria 2007 were, after all, that here were 21 percent of all babies at six months breast-feeding exclusively. that promote improved conditions in maternity hospitals, breastfeeding, Duch was a large randomized intervention study already shown, currently a not yet completed study examined in a model region of Bavaria, the hypothesis that breast-depth knowledge of the attending health personnel increased breastfeeding rates.
