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  1. The Japanese health system places great emphasis on healthy development. However, the prevalence of Exclusive Breastfeeding at one month postpartum between 1980 and 2005 has remained unchanged, fluctuating bet...

    Authors: Madoka Inoue, Colin W Binns, Keiko Otsuka, Masamine Jimba and Manami Matsubara
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:15
  2. Teen mothers face many challenges to successful breastfeeding and are less likely to breastfeed than any other population group in the U.S. Few studies have investigated this population; all prior studies are ...

    Authors: Paige Hall Smith, Sheryl L Coley, Miriam H Labbok, Susan Cupito and Eva Nwokah
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:13
  3. Infant and young child feeding is critical for child health and survival. Proportion of infants 0–5 months who are fed exclusively with breast milk is a common indicator used for monitoring and evaluating infa...

    Authors: Xiaodong Cai, Tessa Wardlaw and David W Brown
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:12
  4. Many women are unable to practice exclusive breastfeeding because they are separated from their infants while working. Expressing their breast milk helps them to continue breastfeeding. This study explores the...

    Authors: Tengku Alina Tengku Ismail, Zaharah Sulaiman, Rohana Jalil, Wan Manan Wan Muda and Nik Normanieza Nik Man
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:11
  5. Inadequate knowledge, or inappropriate practice, of breastfeeding may lead to undesirable consequences. The aim of this study was to assess breastfeeding knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) among female tea...

    Authors: Ali Mohamed Al-Binali
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:10
  6. 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 aim of this study was to investi...

    Authors: Beheshteh Olang, Abtin Heidarzadeh, Birgitta Strandvik and Agneta Yngve
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:7
  7. The practice of exclusive breastfeeding is still low despite the associated benefits. Improving the uptake and appropriating the benefits will require an understanding of breastfeeding as an embodied experienc...

    Authors: Ojo M Agunbiade and Opeyemi V Ogunleye
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:5
  8. We sought to investigate infant feeding practices amongst HIV-positive and -negative mothers (0-9 months postpartum) and describe the association between infant feeding practices and HIV-free survival.

    Authors: Ameena E Goga, Tanya Doherty, Debra J Jackson, David Sanders, Mark Colvin, Mickey Chopra and Louise Kuhn
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:4
  9. This study investigated the infant feeding practices of participating mothers who were recruited into a research project aimed at improving the nutritional status of mildly wasted children (< -1.0 to ≥ -1.5 We...

    Authors: Dyah Ayu Inayati, Veronika Scherbaum, Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri, Elizabeth Hormann, Nia Novita Wirawan, Julia Suryantan, Susan Hartono, Maurice Alexander Bloem, Rosnani Verba Pangaribuan, Hans Konrad Biesalski, Volker Hoffmann and Anne Camilla Bellows
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:3
  10. Malnutrition is a major public health problem in developing countries and exclusive breastfeeding is an efficient strategy that can be used to prevent malnutrition and reduce child mortality. The objective of ...

    Authors: Ghislain B Balaluka, Pépin S Nabugobe, Prudence N Mitangala, Nickel B Cobohwa, Carole Schirvel, Michèle W Dramaix and Philippe Donnen
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:2
  11. Promotion of proper breastfeeding practices for the first six months of life is the most cost-effective intervention for reducing childhood morbidity and mortality. However, the adherence to breastfeeding reco...

    Authors: Manjeswori Ulak, Ram K Chandyo, Lotta Mellander, Prakash S Shrestha and Tor A Strand
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2012 7:1
  12. Women's return to work can be a significant barrier to continued breastfeeding. Workplace policies and practices to promote and support continued, and longer duration of, breastfeeding are important. In the co...

    Authors: Danielle Weber, Anneka Janson, Michelle Nolan, Li Ming Wen and Chris Rissel
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:19
  13. 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...

    Authors: Priyantha J Perera, Meranthi Fernando, Tania Warnakulasuria and Nayomi Ranathunga
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:18
  14. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of infants' lives is a cost effective intervention in saving children's lives and can avert 13 - 15% of the 9 million deaths of children under 5 years old...

    Authors: Tiras Eshton Nkala and Sia Emmanueli Msuya
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:17
  15. Adolescent mothers in the U.S. are much less likely to initiate breastfeeding than older mothers, and teens who do initiate breastfeeding tend to breastfeed for shorter durations. The purpose of this mixed-met...

    Authors: Christine M Tucker, Ellen K Wilson and Ghazaleh Samandari
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:14
  16. Counselling human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive mothers on safer infant and young child feeding (IYCF) options is an important component of programmes to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, bu...

    Authors: Mary Katepa-Bwalya, Chipepo Kankasa, Olusegun Babaniyi and Seter Siziya
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:13
  17. Studies using community-based breastfeeding counselors (CBBCs) have repeatedly shown positive impact on breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration, particularly among low-income mothers. To date, there...

    Authors: Elizabeth M Sullivan, Whitney E Bignell, Anne Andrianos and Alex K Anderson
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:12
  18. Many breastfeeding women require and regularly take medicines, especially those available over-the-counter, and the safe use of these is dependent on the advice provided by health professionals such as general...

    Authors: Safeera Y Hussainy and Narmin Dermele
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:11
  19. In our original study of newborn weight loss, we determined there were positive correlations among newborn weight loss, neonatal output, and the IV fluids mothers received before their babies' birth. Basically...

    Authors: Joy Noel-Weiss, A Kirsten Woodend and Dianne L Groll
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:10
  20. Newborn weight measurements are used as a key indicator of breastfeeding adequacy. The purpose of this study was to explore non-feeding factors that might be related to newborn weight loss. The relationship be...

    Authors: Joy Noel-Weiss, A Kirsten Woodend, Wendy E Peterson, William Gibb and Dianne L Groll
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:9
  21. After only six months, a commerce-free internet-based milk-sharing model is operating in nearly 50 countries, connecting mothers who are able to donate breast milk with the caregivers of babies who need breast...

    Authors: James E Akre, Karleen D Gribble and Maureen Minchin
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:8
  22. Clinicians, public health advisors, nutritionists and others have been attempting to increase breastfeeding rates for the last few decades, with varying degrees of success. We need social science researchers t...

    Authors: Lisa H Amir
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:7
  23. Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex (D-MER) is an abrupt emotional "drop" that occurs in some women just before milk release and continues for not more than a few minutes. The brief negative feelings range in sever...

    Authors: Alia M Heise and Diane Wiessinger
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:6
  24. WHO and UNICEF believe that both antenatal and maternity care organizations are in an excellent position to protect and, if necessary, reinstate a culture that promotes breastfeeding, and that they are respons...

    Authors: Sofia Zwedberg and Lars Naeslund
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2011 6:1
  25. In Bangladesh, many programs and projects have been promoting breastfeeding since the late 1980 s. Breastfeeding practices, however, have not improved accordingly.

    Authors: Rukhsana Haider, Sabrina Rasheed, Tina G Sanghvi, Nazmul Hassan, Helena Pachon, Sanjeeda Islam and Chowdhury SB Jalal
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:21
  26. Midwives' support of breastfeeding in maternity wards has been proven to provide an impact on women's breastfeeding experiences. In previous studies women describe professional support unfavourably, with an em...

    Authors: Caroline A Bäckström, Elisabeth I Hertfelt Wahn and Anette C Ekström
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:20
  27. 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 ...

    Authors: Karen Marie I Moland, Penny van Esterik, Daniel W Sellen, Marina M de Paoli, Sebalda C Leshabari and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:19
  28. As the papers in this thematic series have illustrated, the postnatal prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) strategy has struggled with lack of local relevance. In an attempt to increase ou...

    Authors: Astrid Blystad, Penny van Esterik, Marina M de Paoli, Daniel W Sellen, Sebalda C Leshabari and Karen Marie I Moland
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:18
  29. Even though it has been shown that peer support to mothers at home helps to increase exclusive breastfeeding, little is known about the experiences of peer supporters themselves and what is required of them to...

    Authors: Lungiswa L Nkonki and Karen L Daniels
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:17
  30. 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 satisfact...

    Authors: Jolly Nankunda, James K Tumwine, Victoria Nankabirwa and Thorkild Tylleskär
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:16
  31. Infant feeding in communities with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS is a potential challenge for mothers who must ultimately decide how to feed their infants within contexts that constrain their choices.

    Authors: Jennifer M Levy, Aimee L Webb and Daniel W Sellen
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:15
  32. For HIV infected mothers in developing countries, choosing to enroll in a prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV program is supposed to represent the first step towards protecting their chil...

    Authors: John Njunga and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:14
  33. In resource-poor settings, HIV positive mothers are recommended to choose between 'Exclusive breastfeeding' (EBF) or 'Exclusive replacement feeding' (ERF). Acceptability, Feasibility, Affordability, Sustainabi...

    Authors: Ingunn MS Engebretsen, Karen M Moland, Jolly Nankunda, Charles A Karamagi, Thorkild Tylleskär and James K Tumwine
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:13
  34. Breastfeeding remains normative and vital for child survival in the developing world. However, knowledge of the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission through breastfeeding has brought to atte...

    Authors: Absera T Koricho, Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:12
  35. When and how to wean breastfed infants exposed to HIV infection has provoked extensive debate, particularly in low-income countries where safe alternatives to breastfeeding are rarely available. Although there...

    Authors: Jacqueline R Chinkonde, Johanne Sundby, Marina de Paoli and Viva C Thorsen
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:11
  36. Infant feeding by HIV-infected mothers has been a major global public health dilemma and a highly controversial matter. The controversy is reflected in the different sets of WHO infant feeding guidelines that ...

    Authors: Karen Marie I Moland, Marina M de Paoli, Daniel W Sellen, Penny van Esterik, Sebalda C Leshabari and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:10
  37. The practice of exclusive breastfeeding depends on various factors related to both mothers and their environment, including the services delivered by health professionals. It is known that support and counseli...

    Authors: Aïssata Moussa Abba, Maria De Koninck and Anne-Marie Hamelin
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:8
  38. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended as the optimal way to feed infants for the first six months of life. While overall breastfeeding rates are high, exclusive breastfeeding is relatively uncommon among Midd...

    Authors: Manal Dashti, Jane A Scott, Christine A Edwards and Mona Al-Sughayer
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:7
  39. Breastfeeding is considered the ideal method of infant feeding for at least the first six months of life. This study aimed to compare breastfeeding intention between Syrian and Jordanian women and determine fa...

    Authors: Nemeh Ahmad Al-Akour, Mohammad Yousef Khassawneh, Yusuf S Khader, Alla Ahmad Ababneh and Azeiza M Haddad
    Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2010 5:6

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