The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends breastfeeding as the preferred method of infant feeding. The protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding are matters of public health policy and important roles for pediatricians.1 In this issue of Pediatrics, Feldman-Winter et al2 provide a summary and analysis of the data from 3 AAP Periodic Surveys of Fellows, conducted in 1995, 200...

Maternal obesity is associated with significantly lower rates of breastfeeding initiation, duration and exclusivity. Increasing rates of obesity among reproductive-age women has prompted the need to carefully examine factors contributing to lower breastfeeding rates in this population. Recent research has demonstrated a significant impact of breastfeeding to reduce the risk of obesity in both m...

Introduction: Breast milk is extremely important for maternal and child health bringing indisputable benefits to mother, family society. Health professionals, including nurses, play a key role in promoting supporting breastfeeding with all their technical-scientific knowledge proximity the population. Aims: Understand mothers’ perspective regarding contribution of professionals success breastfe...

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding is the giving breast milk to baby in first hour after birth, where placed on mother's chest and allows find nipple. initiation breastfeeding one way reduce infant mortality. The practice early breastfeeding, especially Indonesia, still very low. According 2002 Indonesian Health Demographic Survey, Indonesia only 3.7%. This service was carried out at Pandai vill...

Breast milk is widely accepted as the ideal source of nutrition for infants. In order to ensure success in breastfeeding, it is important that it be initiated as early as possible during the neonatal period. This is facilitated by skin-to-skin contact between the mother and infant immediately following birth. When possible, the infant should be allowed to root and latch on spontaneously within ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether supporting fathers to recognize the relevance of their role in the success of breastfeeding and teaching them how to prevent and to manage the most common lactation problems would result in more women breastfeeding. METHODS A controlled trial, in which the participating fathers were allocated in 2-month blocks to a child care training session, was conducted of...

OBJECTIVES Juggling breastfeeding and paid work can challenge breastfeeding success. We examined the relationship between breastfeeding and maternity leave before and after delivery among working mothers in Southern California. California is 1 of only 5 states in the United States providing paid pregnancy leave that can be extended for infant bonding. PATIENTS AND METHODS Drawing from a case-...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides foods, education, and referrals to participants who are considered to be at nutritional risk. The outreach of the program is impressive, and nearly 9.17 million people participated in the program in 2010. WIC participation is associated with many positive outcomes, including improved birthweights and chil...