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Breastfeeding Report Card United States?/?2013 Background immediate and continued contact between mother and baby during the hospital stay: skin-to-skin contact within Improving the health of mothers and their children one hour after birth and rooming-in together throughout is a primary goal of the Centers for Disease Control the stay. While both skin-to-skin contact and rooming-in and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Nutrition, Physical improve breastfeeding rates by helping mothers establish Activity, and Obesity. Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding, with its many known benefits for infants, children, and mothers, are key strategies to accomplish this goal. There are many ways that communities can support mothers and babies that breastfeed, and everyone plays a role. The CDC Breastfeeding Report Card brings together state-by-state information to help tell the story of breastfeeding practices and supports in states. It compiles Skin-to-skin contact Rooming-in at least many types of data so that public health practitioners after vaginal birth 23 hours per day in states can monitor progress, celebrate successes, Figure 1: Percent of hospitals and birth centers where most infants experience skin-to-skin contact and rooming-in?—?mPINC 2007, 2009, and 2011 and identify opportunities to inform and work with health professionals, employers, business owners, and community members. breastfeeding early and learn infant feeding cues, these practices can also benefit mothers and infants who are What’s new this year? not breastfee