Tag: breastfeeding

Babies Are Dying in the Developing World for Lack of Breastfeeding. What’s the Effect on Infants in Developed Countries? Figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spell out the terrible toll taken on infants in some poorer countries.  Even in a large and rapidly developing country such as Nigeria, more than one in ten babies do not make it to their fifth birthday. Nigeria has halved its child mortality rate since 1990; before that twenty-one percent of children died before they were five.  The figures are similar to those for other west African nations such as Chad and the Central…