Sentences with phrase «at the breastfeeding statistics»

First, let's take a look at the breastfeeding statistics by the numbers, then we'll break it down a bit.

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But, current statistics also reveal that less than half of all infants (43 %) are breastfed at all during the first six months of life.

Statistics are being made available via NHS England and Public Health England but this data only covers Initiation of Breastfeeding and Breastfeeding at 6 - 8 weeks.

Unfortunately, this happens all to often: statistics show that nearly half of all new moms who start breastfeeding at birth give up within the first 6 weeks.

We will look at compelling statistics about infant abuse / Shaken Baby Syndrome, infant emergency room visits, as well as Breastfeeding initiation and duration rates and how the introduction of baby carriers as a public health intervention could effect those different statistics.

Reports from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention confirmed this as well with statistics showing that breastfeeding infants drop from 51.8 percent at 6 months old to 30.7 percent at 12 months old.

* Disclaimer: The information in this post is an overview, not an exhaustive look at breastfeeding v. formula statistics.

McKenna and Gettler also point out that there are other factors at work — like sleep position, drug / alcohol use, pacifier use and whether or nor the infant was being breastfed at the time of death — which can alter bed - sharing statistics.

I get that she was not exclusively breastfed, she had outside food in her developing digestive track at only 3 days old, but to count her as in the same statistics on how breastfeeding does or does not affect humans babies as the baby who only breastfed for the 3 days when mom was in the hospital and then switched to formal is not sound science.

Just looking at these statistics from The Lancet, I conclude that a mother in a poor nation is more likely to live in a culture that expects breastfeeding to 1 year or beyond.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.