Hi, I am mom to Gregory and William and outside of being a mom.

I really enjoy cooking and anything outdoors.

My name is Stacy and I'm a Mariah Careball.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Mariah Careball's Mama's podcast.

I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and it is World Breast Feeding Week.

I'm so excited to have the guest share with you.

I know last week I said that we were going to have a midwife on this week,

but I forgot that it was World Breast Feeding Week.

And I was able to interview you guys know her as Milky Mama on Instagram and on the web.

And it's Crystal Doohaney and she is just awesome.

She has such an amazing story that she's going to share with us and also answer tons and tons of breastfeeding questions.

And before I bring her on, I wanted to dive into some of the breastfeeding statistics that are out there.

Because that's kind of the point of World Breast Feeding Week is seeing the trends that are happening and seeing where there needs to be support or education.

And so I got this information off of the CDC website.

So about 83 to 84% of babies are breastfed at some point.

Babies that are breastfed exclusively for three months drops down to about 47%.

So exclusively through six months is at 25% and people who are still breastfeeding at a year.

But like also feeding whole foods and stuff is around 36%.

So you can see that the numbers kind of go all over.

It starts out with people trying to do it.

And then there is a drop off that happens.

And you can look at I'll put a link in the notes.

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