{"id":73413,"date":"2016-04-26T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=73413"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:24:48","slug":"breastfeeding-becomes-trending-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/04\/26\/breastfeeding-becomes-trending-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding becomes trending topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A proud mother breastfeeding her twins has become a trending topic on Dominican social media, after journalist Laura Castellanos posted a photo of herself breastfeeding her twins, Leticia and Rodolfo. The photo has brought the breastfeeding taboo that still exists in the Dominican Republic to the forefront. Statistics show that fewer than 7% of mothers will breastfeed their children for the first six months, which pediatricians recommend as best for babies. According to the figures, most women who do breastfeed only do so for one month. <\/p>\n<p> Castellanos&#8217; reaction to the controversy was to point out that her example has made people more aware of the importance of breastfeeding. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6M4kHbRIvA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2016\/04\/24\/laura-castellanos-gracias-las-criticas-mis-fotos-lactancia-gano-apoyo\/\">Laura Castellanos: gracias a las cr\u00edticas a mis fotos la lactancia gan\u00f3 apoyo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Laura Castellanos: gracias a las cr\u00edticas a mis fotos la lactancia gan\u00f3 apoyo&#187; &#8212; Peri\u00f3dico El Caribe - Mereces verdaderas respuestas\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2016\/04\/24\/laura-castellanos-gracias-las-criticas-mis-fotos-lactancia-gano-apoyo\/embed\/#?secret=6M4kHbRIvA\" data-secret=\"6M4kHbRIvA\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oLs7N6QsEa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2016\/04\/23\/foto-laura-castellanos-lactando-sus-hijos-genera-controversia-las-redes\/\">Foto de Laura Castellanos lactando sus hijos genera controversia en las redes sociales<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Foto de Laura Castellanos lactando sus hijos genera controversia en las redes sociales&#187; &#8212; Peri\u00f3dico El Caribe - Mereces verdaderas respuestas\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2016\/04\/23\/foto-laura-castellanos-lactando-sus-hijos-genera-controversia-las-redes\/embed\/#?secret=oLs7N6QsEa\" data-secret=\"oLs7N6QsEa\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2016\/04\/26\/417019\/lactancia-en-peligro-de-extincion-en-rd<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/entretenimiento\/2016\/04\/25\/416830\/laura-castellanos-encuentra-solidaridad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proud mother breastfeeding her twins has become a trending topic on Dominican social media, after journalist Laura Castellanos posted a photo of herself breastfeeding her twins, Leticia and Rodolfo. The photo has brought the breastfeeding taboo that still exists in the Dominican Republic to the forefront. Statistics show that fewer than 7% of mothers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/04\/26\/breastfeeding-becomes-trending-topic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}