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Busting Breastfeeding Myths
By Paul M. Fleiss with Fredrick M. Hodges
Issue 132, September/October 2005

NOTES
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7. Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock, The Breastfeeding Answer Book (Schaumburg, IL: La Leche League International, 1991), 27.
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20. P. M. Fleiss and F. M. Hodges, Sweet Dreams (Los Angeles: Lowell House, 2000).
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