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The 24-h rooming-in policy is crucial to the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) for promoting breastfeeding. However, this policy may restrict maternal...
Governments must protect and apply maximum feasible resourcing to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in order to meet their international legal ... world have consistently failed in these duti...
Health authorities recommend 6 months of fully breastfeeding and continuation of breastfeeding for at least a year. Many women initiate breastfeeding in hospital but discontinue before the six-...
Peer counselling is reported to increase breastfeeding rates. We evaluated an intervention consisting of mainly telephone contact peer counselling programme on breastfeeding duration and exclusivity.
Breastfeeding is crucial for the preterm infants. Breast ... have focused on the longitudinal effects of exclusive breastfeeding outcome of preterm infants separated from their ... Shanghai. We aimed to examine t...
Despite the increasing rate of exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia, there is still a need for supportive interventions. The breastfeeding self-efficacy of mothers is a key factor positively associated with optim...
On a regular basis there is an outcry about a mother who has been told to cover up or move away from a public area while she is breastfeeding. Mothers should feel free to breastfeed whenever they need to. However...
Infant feeding categories, often referred to as breastfeeding definitions, form the basis to describe infant feeding patterns; especially, breastfeeding duration and degree of breastfeeding exclusivity. Researche...
Increased global demand for imported breast milk substitutes (infant formula, follow-on formula and toddler milks) in Asia, particularly China, and food safety recalls have led to shortages of these products in h...
Maternal work has been identified as one of the factors that affect exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life. ... formal sector of employment are unable to exclusively breastfeed after maternity le...
Despite the benefits of breastfeeding for both infant and mother, rates in ... the United States remain below Healthy People 2020 breastfeeding objectives. This paper describes breastfeeding outcomes of the Delta...
Three dominant themes framed infant feeding. 1) Pragmatism in feeding choices drove responses to baby’s cues, including cries, sleeping patterns, and weight gain (2). Formula feeding was normative in the South Af...
Preeclampsia is a global health problem and it is the main cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Breastfeeding has been reported to be associated with ... is no published data on the role that
The expression of breast milk allows a mother to be away intermittently from her infant while continuing to breastfeed. The aim of this study was to ... the association between expression of breast milk and breastfeeding
The United States Preventive Services Task Force found that effective interventions for extending breastfeeding duration are generally begun during the prenatal ... lactation consultant in the clinical setting ma...
For mothers with diabetes, breastfeeding is a great challenge due to their ... unstable blood glucose levels. This paper explores breastfeeding attitudes and impact of breastfeeding on the daily life of mothers w...
The HIV epidemic coupled with the assumed benefits of infant formula for the children of all HIV-infected mothers have in complex ways changed public ideas about infant feeding and represents a threat to well est...
The Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2019 shows that 59% of children are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life, ... mentioned factors contributing for the low prevalence of breastfeeding. He...
Different strategies have been used to improve the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. Peer counsellors are reported to improve exclusive breastfeeding levels, but few studies have assessed the ... women's ...
World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for 6 months with maternal...
Maternal obesity is associated with significantly lower rates of breastfeeding initiation, duration and exclusivity. Increasing rates ... need to carefully examine factors contributing to lower breastfeeding rate...
Contemporary images of women breastfeeding — from breastfeeding selfies to fine art — celebrate breastfeeding outside the home by displaying visual records ... Jenkins and Sky Boucher, the repertoire of breastfeeding
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is recommended for all infants. However, breastfeeding rates remain suboptimal; around 37% of infants are exclusively breastfed for the first six months gl...
Hospitals have a role to play in supporting, protecting and promoting breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to describe hospital breastfeeding policy and practices and breastfeeding rates among mothers attendi...
Mass media content likely influences the decision of women to breastfeed their newborn children. Relatively few studies have...Parents' Magazine..., a popular parenting magazine, from the years 1971 through 1999....
Recommended breastfeeding practices contribute to improved health of infants, ... comprehensive maternity protection would enable working women to breastfeed for longer. Women working in positions of ... middle-i...
The Correction to this article has been published in International Breastfeeding Journal 2023 18:12
The past ten years have witnessed a rising trend in the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding in Italy, but breastfeeding rates increase in an unequal way; they...
Emotional distress in mothers inhibits the let-down reflex, thus affecting breastfeeding self-efficacy. A breastfeeding mother may have to cope with both ... distress. However, literature on initiatives to improv...
Although breastfeeding is almost universally accepted in the Democratic ... the infant feeding practices and determinants of suboptimal breastfeeding behaviors in DR Congo.
Despite widespread suboptimal breastfeeding practices and maternal experiences of intimate partner ... (IPV), the association of IPV and breastfeeding practices remains unclear. This study investigated the ... em...
Breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates are shaped by ... as immature and incompetent in their mothering and breastfeeding abilities. In this study, we aimed ... understand the experiences of young mother...
Only one-third of Canadian infants are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life ... early postpartum period is one strategy for improving breastfeeding outcomes by building breastfeeding self-efficacy...
The Correction to this article has been published in International Breastfeeding Journal 2021 16:57
Many studies of the impact of breastfeeding on child or maternal health have relied ... this study was to assess recall accuracy among breastfeeding mothers of retrospectively collected data on age...
Breastfeeding is a complex behaviour relying on a ... and family, community and professional support. Optimal breastfeeding in high-income countries is particularly low. Despite having similar sociocultural backg...
The influx of Syrian refugees into Turkey has highlighted the importance of supporting breastfeeding practices among this vulnerable population. We aimed to evaluate the breastfeeding and infant feeding attitudes...
The European Region has the lowest rate of exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months worldwide. Improving work-related breastfeeding issues is important given that women may have difficulties combining work and breastfeeding
Little is known about women’s experience of care and views on early breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
The United Nations through its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 and 5 has championed Women empowerment for exclusive breastfeeding through various action plans and expected the ... in this paper assessed ava...
The number of pregnant women with congenital heart disease (CHD) is rising, and the disease poses increased risks of cardiovascular and obstetric complications during pregnancy, potentially impacting breastfeeding
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) has multiple benefits for both ... there is limited information about the practice of breastfeeding in private hospitals. The objective was to ... the factors associated with the ces...
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting normal life globally, every area of life is touched. The pandemic demands quick action and as new information emerges, reliable synthesises and guidelines for care are urgently...
The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is suboptimal in China. There ... factors that may be effective in promoting exclusive breastfeeding. Previous studies have mainly focused on socio...
Exclusive breastfeeding remains sub-optimal in low-income countries ... through personal mobile phones, to improve exclusive breastfeeding have shown promise, but very few include ... to assess the effectiveness ...
The first reports of the Chinese experience in the management of newborns of mothers with SARS-CoV 2 infection did not recommend mother-baby contact or breastfeeding. At present, the most important International ...
Of all births in Australia, 10 % are to young fathers aged less than 24 years. How young fathers experience any breastfeeding and how this is shaped by their ... and to explore the way they speak about breastfeeding
Although the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding is reduced considerably with the use of ... infectious diseases, could be prevented if mothers breastfeed their babies. Whereas breastfeeding involves s...
The Nationale Stillkommission was founded in Germany in 1994 to increase the acceptance of breastfeeding as the primary means of infant nutrition. ... Bavaria, Freiburg, Hamburg, and Berlin demonstrated breastfeeding
This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-020-00335-3.
The original article was published in International Breastfeeding Journal 2020 15:91
Mothers’ satisfaction with breastfeeding is important for breastfeeding duration but rarely investigated in mothers of ... The aim of this study was to describe breastfeeding satisfaction and associated factors d...
Initiation of breastfeeding immediately after birth, exclusive breastfeeding, and continuous breastfeeding for at least 2 years lower the ... trends and factors associated with early initiation of breastfeeding, ...
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