background: breast variations play an important role in breastfeeding success. it seems that this issue has not gained enough attention. the present study was designed to measure the prevalence of breast variations among women of reproductive age in an iranian community. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a sample of 402 pregnant women who were referred to the only maternal h...

OBJECTIVE To summarize current evidence on the association between infant pacifier use and breastfeeding. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, POPLINE, and bibliographies of identified articles. STUDY SELECTION A search for English-language records (from January 1950 through August 2006) containing the Medical Subject Heading terms pacifiers and breastfeeding was cond...

The Canadian Paediatric Society position statement “Ankyloglossia and Breastfeeding” describes the common congenital anomaly of a tight lingual frenulum, which can restrict tongue mobility and lead to breastfeeding problems. When ankyloglossia (“tongue-tie”) contributes to substantial breastfeeding difficulties, frenotomy should be performed by an experienced clinician.1 A review article on ton...

BACKGROUND Often breastfeeding problems experienced by mothers and their babies may be attributed to the abnormal attachment of the infant's tongue (ankyloglossia) and/or maxillary lip-tie. Proper breastfeeding depends upon an infant's ability to correctly latch onto its mother's breast. If born with oral soft tissue abnormalities such as tongue-tie or lip-tie, it may be almost impossible for t...

Many new mothers discontinue breastfeeding prematurely due to difficulties encountered rather than maternal choice. Research has shown that a significant predictor of breastfeeding duration is maternal confidence. Using self-efficacy theory as a conceptual framework to measure breastfeeding confidence, the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale (BSES) was developed and psychometrically tested among ...

The problems of suction in newborns give rise to multiple consequences for both the mother and the newborn. The objective of this paper is to present a case of ankyloglossia ("tongue-tie") and the suction problems that were treated by a multidisciplinary team. The subject is a 17-day-old male patient, with ankyloglossia and suction problems during breastfeeding (pain in the breastfeeding mother...

BACKGROUND The promotion and support of breastfeeding is a global priority. However, in reality most of the mothers are unable to practice exclusive breastfeeding. Most mothers discontinue breastfeeding because of lack of confidence in their ability to breastfeed, problem with infant suckling, breast pain, perception of insufficient milk, in addition to other unspecified difficulties. Some thes...

Ankyloglossia (tongue tie) is a well-recognized cause of breastfeeding difficulties and, if untreated, can cause maternal nipple pain and trauma, ineffective feeding, and poor infant weight gain. In some cases, this condition will result in a downregulation of the maternal milk supply. Milk-production measurements (24-hour) for a breastfeeding infant with ankyloglossia revealed the ineffective ...

AIMS To explore the experiences of breastfeeding women. BACKGROUND There is a plethora of data demonstrating that human breast milk provides complete nutrition for human infants. While the rate of initiation of breastfeeding in the United Kingdom has shown a steady increase in the last 25 years, rates of exclusive breastfeeding in the early weeks and months over the same time period have show...

Iran J Pediatr; Vol 24 (No 4), Aug 2014 Published by: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (http://ijp.tums.ac.ir) reported yet from Iran. Our patient illustrates the typical manifestation of an acute suppurative parotitis. Our patient was female unlike the most of reported patients[2,3]. She had unilateral parotid gland involvement, like the most of cases[2,3]. One third of the patients were ...