OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the effects of breast feeding on autonomic nervous system (ANS) response to stressors. METHODS Sympathetic and parasympathetic activities were examined before, during, and after standard laboratory stressors in women who were either exclusively breast feeding (n=14) or nonexclusively breast feeding (n=14), and in non-postpartum controls (n=15). ...

OBJECTIVE Breast-feeding is associated with positive maternal and infant health and development outcomes. To assist identifying women less likely to meet infant nutritional guidelines, we investigated the role of socio-economic position and parity on initiation of and sustaining breast-feeding for at least 6 months. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Australia. SUBJECTS Parous women...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between duration of breast feeding and measures of adiposity in adolescence. DESIGN Population based birth cohort study. SETTING Pelotas, a city of 320 000 inhabitants in a relatively developed area in southern Brazil. PARTICIPANTS All newborn infants in the city's hospitals were enrolled in 1982; 78.8% (2250) of all male participants were located at ag...

Fifty Asian immigrant mothers who would have expected to breast feed their infants had they remained in rural Asia were studied. There was a striking reduction in the incidence and duration of breast feeding on arrival in the United Kingdom, and a fall in the age of weaning. The availability of an alternative to human milk is the most important factor reducing the incidence of breast feeding. O...

CONTEXT Promotional and educational programs relating to breast feeding are important for reversing the decline in this practice. Most programs are centered exclusively on breast feeding, although general knowledge about newborn health care may be important, especially among pregnant women. OBJECTIVE To study pregnant women's knowledge about general health care of newborns, including breast f...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the peer counselling (PC) programme on breast-feeding initiation among participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Missouri, and to identify factors that facilitate breast-feeding initiation. DESIGN We used the data from the 2006 Missouri Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System, Missouri Live B...

SIR We read with interest the study by Rutishauser and Carlini which showed that, after adjusting for the effects of confounding factors, body mass index (BMI) had a significant independent effect on the rate of cessation of breast feeding. The authors further suggest that concern regarding the lack of weight loss while breast feeding may be the basis for the association found between BMI and t...

OBJECTIVES To identify the prevalence of breast-feeding at discharge and the determinants of breast-feeding initiation amongst Aboriginal women. DESIGN A prospective cohort study using a self-administered baseline questionnaire and telephone-administered follow-up interviews. SETTING Six hospitals with maternity wards in Perth, Western Australia. SUBJECTS Four hundred and twenty-five Abor...

OBJECTIVE To see the effects of maternal depression on breast feeding behavior. DESIGN This is a cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION The study was carried out at the OPD of the Children's Hospital Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad from October to mid November 2001. SUBJECT/METHODS One hundred mothers with children of breast feeding age from 2 months to 2 years were in...

To promote breast feeding and/or prevent further decline of adverse infant feeding practices, we developed an integrated comprehensive breast feeding promotion program, and implemented it in Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital in 1987. The program provided sound knowledge and attitudes toward breast feeding to all mothers at the Antenatal Care Unit, delivery room, the Postnatal Care Unit, and th...