A little while back the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition was trying to figure out what to do about “las dos.”
“Las dos” (literally “the two” or “both”) or “las dos cosas” is slang in Spanish for feeding by both breast and bottle.
While Latinas as a whole breastfeed at higher than average rates (81% vs. 75%, CDC , 2007), exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low (33% of Latinas supplement before two days vs. 25% U.S. average, CDC, 2007). I should point out that these numbers don’t tell the whole story by any means; different subgroups of Latinas (mothers of Mexican or Puerto Rican descent, for example) breastfeed at very different rates.
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