Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding among women»

Countouris said that the number of study participants with high blood pressure during pregnancy may have been too small to reveal any potential cardiovascular benefit of breastfeeding among these women.

The study bolsters evidence of the benefits of breastfeeding among women with normal blood pressure during pregnancy and is the first to specifically examine whether these benefits are also seen in women with high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Researchers found no evidence of cardiovascular benefit from breastfeeding among women who had high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Findings from this study suggest that the decreases in breastfeeding duration associated with pacifier use may be a consequence of less frequent breastfeeding among women who introduce pacifiers to their infants.

Researchers found no evidence of cardiovascular benefit from breastfeeding among women who had high blood pressure during pregnancy.

She served in several positions with the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), including coordinator of the Tennessee Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance and Breastfeeding Promotion Programs and chair of a national committee to address the low rates of breastfeeding among women enrolled in WIC.

Not exact matches

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, among the benefits of breastfeeding are the nutrients and antibodies that come naturally in breast milk, the ease of breast milk on an infant's digestive system and the hormones in breast milk that protect babies from illness.

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In contrast, among the women who reported never sleeping with their baby, just half were breastfeeding at all at 30 weeks.

Among the women who received extra attention to breastfeeding, 16 percent were feeding their babies only with breast milk at three months of age, compared to 6 percent of the women who got no extra attention.

Acetaminophen and ibuprofen, commonly found in over-the-counter pain relievers, flu shots and hormonal contraceptive pills are among the medications considered safe for breastfeeding women.

And to make sure that breastfeeding leadership also reflects the same parity we seek among women who breastfeed.

Which is why I want to call attention to what is happening in our AP community: As much as we try to be welcoming to every AP parent, there is still judgment passed among us — the woman whose birth ended in a Cesarean, the mother who can not breastfeed, the father who came to AP later and with a history of spanking, the lower - income families in which both parents must work, the parents who do not take their baby to bed with them, and so on.

Unique cultural barriers among black women: While many of the «booby traps» ™ to breastfeeding are universal, Black women also have unique cultural barriers and a complex history connected to breastfeeding.

I help women and their families with breastfeeding issues and challenges, among other things.

The study showed that breastfeeding is associated with about a 10 percent lower risk of several major cardiovascular diseases in later life among Chinese women, and breastfeeding duration seemed to play a role.

Wedge pillows are among the most affordable options for women looking to purchase a maternity pillow, and they can be used during pregnancy as well for breastfeeding or other members of the household, so many women feel good in their investment when choosing to buy a wedge.

Lactation Mastitis: Occurrence and Medical Management among 949 Breastfeeding Women in the United States.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

That means no nurses pushing formula, lactation support in the hospital, support for moms in the workplace, cultural norms that allow women to breastfeed in public places without being shamed, and more support among women for dealing with the challenges.

Why do you think there's so much push back among the general populace, when women try to normalize breastfeeding or breastfeed in public without a cover?

It's a widely known fact, especially among parenting circles, that women's nipples are often sore in the beginning stages of breastfeeding.

However, among women who breastfed for more than three months, returning to work or a previous decision to stop at that time were the top reasons.

[1] However, since the middle 1960s there has been a steady resurgence in the practice of breastfeeding in Canada and the US, especially among more educated, affluent women.

Her experience in social activism has informed her research surrounding experiences of racism and breastfeeding outcomes among Black women in the U.S..

Sore nipples, for instance, are among the top reasons that women give up breastfeeding (sore nipples that make nursing unbearable are not normal, and there are usually simple solutions out there to remedy them).

Initiation of breastfeeding in all studies is quite high, around 90 %, although in some sub-populations, especially among socially disadvantaged and smoking women, the initiation rate is much lower.

The proportion is even higher among middle - class women with well - paid jobs — more than 90 per cent of mothers in managerial or professional roles breastfeed.

«At the end of the day, we know that breastfeeding is best for babies, and is especially important among black women, but Beyonce did breastfeed and now she is also bottle feeding which is just fine,» says Kimberly Seals Allers, breastfeeding advocate and founder of parenting website MochaManual.com.

In multiple studies, lactation is associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.12, 22 Several studies have found differences in diabetes prevalence among postmenopausal women.22, 23 However, the only study to measure incident disease found that the association between breastfeeding and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus disappeared after 15 years after a woman's last birth.12 Thus, we limited the effect of lactation on type 2 diabetes mellitus accordingly.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

Effective communication among the various counselors who advise breastfeeding women is essential.

This task force will link with various organisations like BAMBI (Childbirth / Breastfeeding Foundation), WEDO (Women Environment and Development Organisation) and ICM (International Confederation of Midwives), among others.

In a recent survey Dr. Keim conducted of 499 women, published in Breastfeeding Medicine, 25 percent of women considered milk sharing and almost 4 percent of women shared milk among friends or relatives or had a preterm infant who received donor milk.

HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.

Maternal activity budgets: feasibility of exclusive breastfeeding for six months among urban women in Honduras.

«Our focus now is on improving breastfeeding rates among Maori and Asian women who often have a lower breastfeeding rate than the overall population.»

One study reported that, among women who continue to smoke throughout breastfeeding, the incidence of acute respiratory illness is decreased among their infants, compared with infants of smoking mothers who are bottle fed.16 It may be that breastfeeding and smoking is less detrimental to the child than bottle feeding and smoking.

This study explored the link between breastfeeding duration and bed - sharing frequency among women reporting a prenatal intention to breastfeed.

I told her that maybe it would highlight that there should be a campaign to promote breastfeeding among black women.

And although it's most common during the early days of breastfeeding, it can hit at any time — even among women who aren't pregnant or breastfeeding.

Extending Breastfeeding among Black and Latina Mothers: Preparing Women for the Postpartum Period

The analysis of Table 3, representing the distribution of breastfeeding women followed according to the practice of EB over time in the two groups, showed that the continuation of EB until the age of 6 months was significantly high among mothers in the intervention group compared to the control group (55.2 % against 38.8 %, p = 0.002).

One study in particular mentions that breastfeeding staves off a particular type of breast cancer among women.

A key reason behind the recent turnaround in breastfeeding among minority mothers in Illinois and particularly in the metropolitan Chicago area, state and local public health leaders say, is a common - sense peer counselor program launched in WIC (Women, Infants and Children program) clinics, which serve women who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.&rWomen, Infants and Children program) clinics, which serve women who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.&rwomen who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.»

10 Although there has been a gradual increase in the rate of breastfeeding among certain groups of women between 1988 and 1997,11 the national breastfeeding goals were not attained in 2000, and thus remain unchanged for the year 2010.

Claiming that breastfeeding is no longer considered «cool» among young mothers in the U.K., Turner argued that Middleton opting to breastfeed her little one could have a transformative effect on the way that breastfeeding is viewed among other women of childbearing age in the country.

In Orthodox communities here, it is sometimes seen as a way to increase the period of breastfeeding infertility among women who don't want to use birth control.

Some of the potential causes of poor breastfeeding outcomes among black and Puerto Rican women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers (12).