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Why breast feeding fails.

Harris V, Hall D

Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

BACKGROUND: Vanessa is a 34-year-old lawyer married to a police officer. Her first baby was born after a perfect pregnancy and labour until fetal distress necessitated an easy Ventouse extraction late in the second stage. Baby F had normal Apgar scores and weighed 2920 g. This paper records a conversation between Vanessa (V) and her father (F) about breast feeding.

Published 22 December 2006 in Arch Dis Child, 92(1): 84.
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