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In an effort to prevent infants being infected with SARS-CoV-2, some governments, professional organisations, and health facilities are instituting policies that isolate newborns from their mothers and otherwise ...
Milk sharing is not a new concept and occurs today via regulated human milk banks and unregulated online milk sharing groups. Exploring and understanding how, and why, mothers use these peers to peer milk sharing...
Breastfeeding is important for both mother and child ... health at three years postpartum in mothers who breastfed for at least six months and their...
The 2013 updated guidelines on management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children recommends the support of exclusive breastfeeding. These guidelines are inconsistently applied in low ... in NICU and...
This review aims to describe changes in breastfeeding and summarise the breastfeeding rates, duration and reasons of discontinuing 'any breastfeeding' or 'exclusive breastfeeding' in P.R. China. Breastfeeding rat...
When and how to wean breastfed infants exposed to HIV infection has provoked ... in low-income countries where safe alternatives to breastfeeding are rarely available. Although there is global...
Women are the fastest-growing population in carceral facilities in Canada. Most incarcerated women are mothers, with above-average parity. The incarceration of women has implications not only for women’s health, ...
Many infants worldwide are not breastfeeding according to WHO recommendations and this impacts ... the health of women and children. Increasing breastfeeding is identified as a priority area supported ... element...
There is a paucity of data regarding risk factors associated with suboptimal breastfeeding practices in urbanized areas of low-middle...
Many women are unable to practice exclusive breastfeeding because they are separated from their infants ... Expressing their breast milk helps them to continue breastfeeding. This study explores the perception an...
We analysed data from 1693 women with early postnatal and 471 with 6-week postnatal interviews. HIV prevalence was 47% (95% confidence interval [CI] 42, 52%). Women living with HIV were more knowledgeable than...
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) during the early months of ... recommendation in Sri Lanka is to continue exclusive breastfeeding up to six months of age. Exclusive breastfeeding rates are generally assessed by the...
One of the most important protective health factors for children is breast-feeding, but the mechanisms for this effect are not fully elucidated. Our objective was to assess if the duration of breastfeeding influe...
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) seeks to support breastfeeding initiation in maternity services. This study uses ... relationship between BFHI programming and trends in exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) ...
We have previously shown that in Iran, only 28% of infants were exclusively breastfed at six months, despite a high prevalence of breastfeeding at two years of age. The primary ... was to investigate the reasons ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed several challenges to the provision of newborn nutrition and care interventions including maternal support, breastfeeding and family participatory care. Italy was the ... lockdown ...
The aim of this paper is to examine how breastfeeding is defined for research purposes.
Timely initiation of breastfeeding is feeding of breast milk within one ... however, three in five babies were not breastfed in the first hour of birth globally. ... impact of cesarean section on timely initiatio...
Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices have profound implications...
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is the global recommended nutrition ... months of age. The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in Ethiopia is much lower than the...
Initiation of breastfeeding can be difficult in a busy maternity ... role of psychosocial support offered by companions on breastfeeding initiation among first-time mothers.
Timely initiation of breastfeeding is putting the newborn baby to the ... prevalence and factors associated with timely initiation of breastfeeding among mothers in Ghana.
Given the limited availability of research on the association between COVID-19 infection and breastfeeding success, the primary objective of this study...
The study design was qualitative descriptive. Data were collected by individual semi-structured interviews, investigating the mother’s experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, infant formula or comple...
The old paradigm described inflammation as simply one of many risk factors for depression. The new paradigm is based on more recent research that has indicated that physical and psychological stressors increas...
Despite growing evidence of the impacts of exclusively breastfeeding infants during the first 6 months of...
The challenges and predictors of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) have been examined in many...
There is a gap in knowledge on the growth of children exclusively breastfed during the fifth and sixth months of ... assess the growth of infants who were exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life...
The American focus on the sexual purpose of breasts, rather than the physiological function of breasts, has serious public health consequences. Discomfort with breastfeeding in public lowers breastfeeding rates, ...
This review examines the role of donor human milk banking in international human rights documents and global health policies. For countries looking to improve child health, promotion, protection and support of...
Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) compared to separation at birth has a positive effect on breastfeeding. However, separation at birth is common with negative impact on breastfeeding. The aim was to determine the effect...
Breastfeeding provides the optimal nourishment for infant and child health and supporting mothers to breastfeed is a global health priority. Midwives are uniquely placed to provide breastfeeding education and sup...
The rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been rising worldwide, and therefore it is important to identify potential causes of ASD to facilitate early prevention. This study examined the role of breastfeeding
Early introduction of liquid/solid food before 6 months of age is one of the major barriers to exclusive breastfeeding. Our objective was to analyze the evolution...
Maternal smoking is suspected to have negative impacts on breastfeeding, such as decreasing the quantity of breast ... different tobacco products and the rates of current breastfeeding.
Despite the known benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, global rates remain below recommended targets, ... Work-Based Learning Groups (WBLGs) to enhance breastfeeding practices within Irish healthcare settings fro...
The challenging combination of breastfeeding and work is one of the main reasons for early breastfeeding cessation. Although the availability of a lactation ... a private space designated for milk expression or breastfeeding
The RUBY randomised controlled trial demonstrated the benefit of proactive telephone peer support in promoting breastfeeding continuation in a setting with high breastfeeding initiation, where typically this is d...
The impact of breastfeeding on childhood obesity has long been under ... and others showing weak or no association between breastfeeding and childhood obesity. What’s more, ... the previous studies focused on the...
The relationship between infant breastfeeding and type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM)...
The exclusive breastfeeding rate in China remains significantly low. Numerous ... identified the impact of maternal characteristics on exclusive breastfeeding; however, the correlation between primary family ... ...
In China, less than one third of infants under 6 months of age are being exclusively breastfed. Maternal rural-to-urban migration contributes to these low rates of breastfeeding practices. Therefore, the aim of t...
The effects of breastfeeding practices on children’s health are undoubtedly of great interest. However, inequalities in breastfeeding
Nutritional support influences the growth and development of late preterm infants (LPIs) and their long-term health status. However, healthy LPIs have a shorter hospital stay and may not receive adequate care aft...
The 2013 WHO guidelines for nutritional rehabilitation of malnourished infants under six months (u6m) focus on inpatient re-establishment of exclusive breastfeeding and recommends discharge when infant is gaining...
The influences of breastfeeding and infant diet in the prevention of ... aim was to assess whether the duration of breastfeeding and age at complementary food introduction affected...
Feeding during early childhood is important for normal physical and mental growth as well as for health in later life. Currently, Sri Lanka has adopted the WHO recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding for six mo...
Upon hospital discharge it is not unusual for mothers of preterm infants to continue to meet all or most of their infants' nutritional needs through bottle feedings of expressed breast milk (EBM) because of infan...
There are not many studies exploring parity differences in early lactation performance and the results obtained are fairly often contradictory. The present study investigated the effect of different maternity hom...
Grandmothers and healthcare providers differed in their beliefs regarding appropriate timing to introduce non-milk foods and duration of breastfeeding. Compared to grandmothers, healthcare providers tended...
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