Postpartum lactation support is a health care gap

Feeding an infant is often described in the language of choice. Breast or bottle. Preference or plan. It is framed as something intimate and personal, even private. Yet in clinical reality, especially in the earliest weeks after birth, feeding is also a physiological process that depends on maternal recovery, access to care, and structured medical support. When that support is missing, what appears to be a personal decision begins to …

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Postpartum lactation support is a health care gap