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Supplementing breastfeeding31 Mar 2004
What advice should health-care professionals give to new mothers who are tired or distressed and struggling to breast feed their babies?

New research shows that if mothers are advised to supplement their feeds with formula or expressed milk, then this can dramatically reduce the long-term success of breast-feeding.

Professor Jo Alexander and Annalisa Barbieri join Jenni to discuss the issues.

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