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We probably don't even have to introduce this particular magazine cover: Time magazine really knocked it out of Controversy Park with this one. Comedian Jared Logan wasn't alone in finding this scandel ripe for the joke-picking, but he may have taken the joke further than others. "I breastfed until I was 11 and, as you can see, I’m a completely normal well-adjusted person," he said at The Paper Machete.

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The measure would require hospitals to develop a policy with guidance from the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, an effort of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

A hospital that delivers more than a quarter of babies born in Chicago is entering an international program that aims to improve the health of both newborns and their mothers.

A Southwest Side hospital with the Chicago area’s lowest newborn breastfeeding rate is trying to step up its game.

A new French study shows that breastfeeding may have lasting benefits for a child’s metabolism. Other studies suggest breastfeeding helps prevent infections, chronic diseases and obesity.

Almost half of African-American mothers in Illinois never breastfeed their newborns, according to a report by state and university researchers and a nonprofit group called HealthConnect One.