The Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success: Teaching Child Development to Extend Breastfeeding Duration

Breastfeeding Duration Is Associated With Child Diet

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Breastfeeding has been associated with early infant food preferences, but less is known about how breastfeeding is associated with later child diet. The objective of this study was to assess whether any and exclusive breastfeeding duration are associated with child diet at 6 years. METHODS: We linked data from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II and Year 6 Follow-Up....

Breastfeeding Duration Is Associated With Child Diet

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Breastfeeding has been associated with early infant food preferences, but less is known about how breastfeeding is associated with later child diet. The objective of this study was to assess whether any and exclusive breastfeeding duration are associated with child diet at 6 years. METHODS: We linked data from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II and Year 6 Follow-Up....

Health system factors contributing to breastfeeding success.

OBJECTIVE To identify and characterize health care system factors that contribute to successful breastfeeding in the early postpartum period. STUDY DESIGN A prospective 8-week cohort study of 522 women at five area hospitals who had a vaginal delivery of a healthy, full-term single child and who intended to breastfeed. Mothers and infants had free access to each other for breastfeeding during...

Strategies for breastfeeding success.

Breastfeeding provides significant health benefits for infants and mothers. However, the United States continues to fall short of the breastfeeding goals set by the Healthy People 2010 initiative. The American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology have policy statements supporting breastfeeding that reflect recent...

Professional breastfeeding support to increase the exclusivity and duration of breastfeeding: a randomised controlled trial.