A soon-to-be mother in Greene County was eight months pregnant and told her pharmacist, Heather Eddy, that she was planning to breastfeed, using formula as a backup. But, as Eddy recalls, she worried whether she could afford it.
Eddy, who works at the McCracken Pharmacy in Waynesburg, directed the mother to the supplemental nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), which could help alleviate the cost. New moms will likely have new questions all the time, according to Eddy, who has an 18-month-old son.
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