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Freelance med editor, writer, publishing consultant. #scicomm, health literacy, maternal&child health. Occasional outdoorsy and cold swimming tweets. Own views
May 22, 2019 45 tweets 15 min read
A thread about infant readmissions to hospital in the UK. Prompted by a recent paper in @bmcseries #bmcpediatrics. I’ll talk thru the data & some wider issues that are the focus of debate in #infantfeeding - 1/n

bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Why is this important? Well, there is a lot of discussion going on, mainly in mass media and social media, about possible relationships between #infantfeeding policy & practice and sufficiency of #breastfeeding in the early days/weeks of life 2/n