Abstract:
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Breastfeeding is an inimitable means of nourishment, with considerable health benefits for both infants and mothers. The World Health Organization recommends infants be breastfed exclusively for the first six months. Ideally children should be exclusively breastfed for the first year of life. Exclusive breastfeeding includes bottle-fed pumped breastmilk but excludes any formula. Even after the six-month mark, WHO encourages continued breastfeeding with supplemented foods till age two. Just in the United States breastfeeding rates are abysmal; a little over half of infants born in 2015 were breastfed at all at six months. Globally women, regardless of employment status or socioeconomic status, struggle to breastfeed. LACTOR is an interactive online portal for breastfeeding mothers. LACTOR acts as a platform to track, and offer a solution for, the issues affecting nursing infants and distressing mothers. The goal is to understand the real challenges of breastfeeding, lessen them, and support mothers in one of the most challenging, but rewarding, parts of motherhood.
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