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Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition: For health of Kansas mothers and babies, a focus on 1,000 crucial days (Column)
“The first 1,000 days — from a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday — is a time of tremendous potential and enormous vulnerability for a child. Babies’ brains develop fastest during this period,” Treva Smith and Brenda Bandy, co-executive directors of the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition, write in this column for the Kansas Reflector.