The formula companies agreed to encourage mothers to go to physicians to get
advice about infant feeding, and not advertise directly to the public (though this part of the understanding has fallen by the wayside recently), while the physicians helped market the new products.
Not exact matches
I actually ran into the opposite problem early on — I was so worried
about making sure my
infant had enough to eat that I was following the BW
advice to treat early wakings as a hunger problem first... ended up
feeding,
feeding,
feeding for weeks until our pediatrician finally told his it was o.k. to back off and start working on getting him to sleep longer:)
Such endorsement has been shown to interfere with independent
advice by health professionals who guide parents in decisions
about infant feeding.
The up - to - date guidelines simultaneously free health workers from having to tailor
infant feeding advice to the HIV - status of their clients and lift from HIV - positive mothers the stigma attached to previous
advice about formula -
feeding.
All mothers have to make decisions
about how to
feed their baby, however mothers of multiples face more challenges
feeding their
infants than mothers of singletons and may need additional
advice and support.
Strengths in Texas incude staff providing breastfeeding
advice and instructions to patients and results indicate facility staff consistently ask
about and document mothers»
infant feeding decisions.
So much of the
advice parents are given
about infant feeding is still based on the abilities of three - or four - month - old babies and the assumption that babies need to be spoon -
fed.
Most interventions have included parent education
about normal sleep and sleep cycles,
advice to maximise environmental differences between day and night, and strategies to encourage
infant self - settling.7 - 10 Strategies included range from the graduated extinction method described above to encouraging parents to stretch night time
feed intervals (in the hope that the
infant will self - settle) and encouraging the use of parent - independent sleep cues.