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For World Breastfeeding Week, Aaron welcomes Brooke Gilliam, a clinical research specialist at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Gilliam shares information about the benefits of breastfeeding and the resources available to help new mothers with the challenges that can arise – and where you can go if you want to become a certified lactation consultant yourself.

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