Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: February 7, 2012 
  
 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the state of Oregon $2.5 million for achieving the nation’s highest rates of breastfeeding. 
  
 On Tuesday, Feb. 7, managers for the state of Oregon’s Women, Infant and Children’s Program attributed much of the state’s success in breastfeeding rates to the Multnomah County Health Department. Because of the county’s WIC program, breastfeeding rates in the most urban region of Oregon have surpassed 90 percent. 
  
 “You can take credit for that,’’ said Char McKay, a state nutrition counselor who lauded county health employees at a ceremony at the Northeast Health Center in Northeast Portland. 
  
 The state presented an award to the county, particularly for the number of WIC mothers who breastfeed exclusively for six months. The longer a mother relies solely on breast milk, the greater the benefits to mother and child. Multnomah County’s rates are especially impressive because it is more racially and socioeconomically diverse. 
  
 Breastfeeding is considered a core strategy for preventing illness and promoting health over a person’s lifespan, from lowering rates of asthma and infection in infants to lowering rates of obesity, diabetes and cancer in adults. 
  
 McKay said the federal nutrition program known as WIC has changed dramatically in the last 20 years to realize this impact. 
  
 “WIC used to be the formula people, where you came to get free formula,” McKay said. “Today, we’re the breastfeeding people. That is huge.’’ 
  
 About 9.1 million women, children and infants were enrolled nationally in the nutritional program every month in 2010. 
  
 Multnomah County’s WIC program, the largest in Oregon, serves more than 22,000 children under age five and nearly 10,000 pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women. They receive food, nutrition counseling and access to health services. 
  
 Diane Garrett, special projects manager for Oregon WIC, said breastfeeding is a sound investment. Studies have shown that for every $1 an employer spends supporting an employee’s breastfeeding, $3 is returned in reduced health costs. 
  
 Garrett said the federal bonus to the state will be invested in strengthening breastfeeding programs. 
  
 One of the county’s most successful strategies has been a peer-support program. Peer counselor Shantae Johnson described how moms meet together for nine months and in the process, share tips about talking to providers, overcoming barriers to breastfeeding and “get to be friends.’’ 
  
 County Commissioner Loretta Smith said when mothers and children are healthy, a community is healthy. 
  
 “We have to give it to the mothers,” Smith said. “They do all the hard work. They’re the bedrock of this community.” ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. - Crystal Cain couldn't have been happier when she delivered her little girl Karrisma at OHSU on Wednesday,even though she delivered eight weeks premature and the baby needed an incubator to survive. 
  
  
  
 “She's going to be OK, they said,” Cain said. “They took her off of all of her breathing machines yesterday and they gave her a trial run and they say she's doing absolutely fine.” 
  
  
  
 Knowing how important breast milk is to a baby's immune system, Crystal planned on breastfeeding, until the baby was born Wednesday. 
  
  
  
 “They're refusing to allow me to breastfeed,” Cain says she was told that day. 
  
  
  
 Cain is a medical marijuana cardholder. 
  
  
  
 Cain had been smoking marijuana during her pregnancy, on her midwife's advice she says, for anxiety and nausea. 
  
  
  
 Cain isn't worried about THC - the compound in marijuana that gets you high - in her bloodstream or breast milk. 
  
  
  
 “There are several studies that indicate that it doesn't, it can't transfer through your milk ducts. Your body automatically kind of filters it,” Cain said. 
  
  
  
 But the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against it. 
  
  
  
 OHSU decided on a middle ground. 
  
  
  
 “We had the mom sign a waiver acknowledging the use of marijuana and the potential risks involved in it.” says Dr. Charles Kilo, Oregon Health Science University’s chief medical officer. 
  
  
  
 The hospital says it's like warning a new mom against smoking or drinking alcohol during pregnancy. 
  
  
  
 “We do understand the benefits of mothers' milk,” Kilo said. “We also don't want to be caught in a situation where a mother continues to use and says that we never gave her information on it, never informed about the risks, and so it's really a way of documenting that the parents acknowledge the risks. And we can't stop her from using it.” 
  
  
  
 Crystal Cain believes more and more hospitals will have to deal with this issue because of legalization in Washington and medical marijuana use in Oregon. 
  
  
  
 “I'm saying there's not enough information because nobody tests it,” says Cain, “It's such a touchy subject that nobody wants to mess with it." |||||
Output:
Breastfeeding rates are higher in Oregon than any other state in the US, with the Portland area leading the pack at more than 90%, reports the USDA. But it was in Portland that a woman recently had to sign a waiver before being allowed to breastfeed her newborn—because she is a medical marijuana user, and the hospital wanted her to acknowledge that she is aware of the potential risks of getting high while nursing. "There are several studies that indicate that it doesn't, it can't transfer through your milk ducts," Crystal Cain tells KOMO News, though the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against smoking pot while nursing. On the advice of her midwife, the new mom also smoked throughout her pregnancy to deal with nausea and anxiety. Her baby, who was born almost two months premature and needed an incubator for a few days, appears to be doing fine now, and Cain says she has no plans to stop smoking. (Marijuana, meanwhile, has been implicated in two fatal heart failures.)