BACKGROUND Many women stop smoking before or during pregnancy, or while breast-feeding (nursing). OBJECTIVES To assess the relation between breast-feeding and smoking habits. METHODS A survey was conducted among 920 women attending family health clinics (group 1) and a maternity department (group 2) on their breast-feeding and smoking habits. RESULTS A total of 156 women (16.95%) smoked d...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the attitudes of health professionals and breast feeding mothers to breast feeding and their views on current practice. DESIGN Questionnaire to all midwives and health visitors and to breast feeding mothers in Newcastle upon Tyne. SETTING Maternity units and community in Newcastle upon Tyne. SUBJECTS 127 hospital midwives, 23 community midwives, 63 health visitors, ...

conclusions the risk of ra increased with delayed menarche, advanced maternal age at first delivery and early age at menopause. however, longer duration of breast-feeding, parity, large number of children and consumption of ocs were found as protective independent variables against ra. methods this case-control study was conducted on 231 patients with ra and 238 controls among females aged 26 -...

promote and support breastfeeding is an essential element for the health and development of infants so that, it introduced as most cost-effective intervention to reduce infant mortality in developing countries (1). breastfeeding has an important role to ensure food security for maintain a healthy and productive life for a large proportion of babies in the world, in addition, it is associated wi...

background and aim: breastfeeding is a health-promoting and disease-preventing activity of mother with acceptable cost-effectiveness. successful breastfeeding depends on various physiological and psychological factors such as maternal breastfeeding self efficacy and perceived stress. the aim of this study is to determine exclusive breastfeeding self efficacy and perceived stress in primipara mo...

background: according to who and unicef emphasison breastfeeding as an essential strategy in child growth and survival,nevertheless, there is a significant space in breastfeeding and whorecommendation in iran yet. this study aimed to assessing the effective factorsof breast feeding behavior based on health belief model constructs among womenin third trimester of pregnancy referee to health care...

Background: Breast feeding is an ideal feeding type for most infants and mothers. We evaluated the effect of early breast-feeding and prenatal education of breastfeeding in maintenance of breast-feeding practice after delivery. Methods: Eighty two pregnant women who experienced vaginal delivery were recruited from the department of obstetrics and gynecology of a university hospital between Janu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate what factors relate most strongly to breast-feeding duration in order to successfully support breast-feeding mothers. DESIGN Prospective birth cohort study using questionnaires, routinely collected weights and health check at age 13 months. SETTING Gateshead, UK. SUBJECTS Parents of 923 term infants born in a defined geographical area and recruited shortly after b...

OBJECTIVE Breast-feeding counselling has been identified as the intervention with the greatest potential for reducing child deaths, but there is little experience in delivering breast-feeding counselling at scale within routine health systems. The study aim was to compare rates of exclusive breast-feeding associated with a breast-feeding counselling intervention in which community health agents...