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To breastfeed or not to breastfeed? That is the question.

Jacqui Myburgh
Curationis | Vol 8, No 1 | a506 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v8i1.506 | © 1985 Jacqui Myburgh | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 September 1985 | Published: 27 September 1985

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Jacqui Myburgh,, South Africa

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The following research was carried out during the eight weeks of August and September 1982. It involved coloured and white patients. Our interest, was to determine how successful coloureds and whites in Johannesburg were at breastfeeding at the time of their six week postnatal check-up.

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