Sentences with phrase «about duration of exclusive breastfeeding»
A, Complete information about duration of exclusive breastfeeding, infectious diseases, and all confounders until the age of 6 months was available for 3504 infants (upper respiratory tract infections), 3489 infants (lower respiratory tract infections), and 3438 infants (gastrointestinal infections).
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For the adjusted analyses, complete information about duration of exclusive breastfeeding, infectious diseases, and all confounders until the age of 6 months was available for 3504 (upper respiratory tract infections), 3489 (lower respiratory tract infections), and 3438 (gastrointestinal infections) infants.
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The information about duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was combined and grouped into the following 6 breastfeeding categories: (1) never; (2) partial for less than 4 months, not thereafter; (3) partial for 4 to 6 months; (4) exclusive for 4 months, not thereafter; (5) exclusive for 4 months, partial thereafter; and (6) exclusive for 6 months.
The duration of exclusive breastfeeding was defined by using information about at what age other types of milk and / or solids were introduced during the first 6 months of life.
To assess the duration of exclusive breastfeeding participants were asked two questions about age: 1) «How old was [child's name] when they were first fed formula?»
In addition, mothers who are educated about the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding are more likely to value exclusive breastfeeding and may be more determined to breastfeed for longer durations [15, 26].
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.