Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding duration rates»

Despite the well documented health benefits of breastfeeding (1), initiation of breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration rates among black infants in the United States are approximately 16 % lower than among whites (2).

Peer counseling programs have successfully raised breastfeeding rates among term infants in low - income families in a range of settings.13 - 19 The objective of this study was to determine whether peer counselors improve breastfeeding duration rates among premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

But simply touting benefits isn't going to help moms in need or increase breastfeeding duration rates.

This represented a stark change from the colonial era, when mothers normally breastfed at least through infants» second summer.3 The move to early weaning was so relentless that doctors complained bitterly in a 1912 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that breastfeeding duration rates had been declining steadily since the mid-19th century «and now it is largely a question as to whether the mother will nurse her baby at all.»»

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All parents who filled out the LS evaluation survey (n = 35), have stated that the LS met their needs and without the space they would not have breastfed their infants past six months (average duration rates are approximately 10 months).

All women (100 %) have stated that the Lactation Station met their needs and they would not have breastfed their infants past six months without the space (mean duration rates were approximately 8 months).

A few potted things the boycott and campaign has achieved: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (despite what Nestlé told the bloggers, it opposed the Code - scans of documents from the time are on our site), the Code's implementation in 70 countries to greater or lesser degrees, breastfeeding rates in countries taking action to stop malpractice increasing (Brazil from median duration 3 months in the 1980s to 10 months today), Nestlé changing its policy on milk nurses and baby pictures on formula, stopping specific cases of malpractice such as Nestlé promoting formula in Botswana as preventing diarrhoea etc. etc..

# 5: Improves Breastfeeding Success Rates Breastfeeding initiation and duration is likely to be more successful with babies who have early skin to skin contact.

The rate of breastfeeding mothers was higher among foreign citizens (89.4 % vs. 84.6 % of Italian mothers), as well as the duration of breastfeeding, which was 9.2 months on average among foreign mothers and 8.1 among Italian mothers.

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.

Currently, mothers in Israel pay twice: Once when their babies get unnecessarily formula, which could compromise the baby's health and is associated with lower rates and duration of breastfeeding.

In fact, in studies and interviews women tend to rate social support as more important than professional support on the duration of their breastfeeding experience 5.

The authors describe how 90 % of mothers initiate breastfeeding at birth, yet very quickly after hospital discharge these rates fall and neither exclusive breastfeeding, nor duration, come close to the WHO / UNICEF infant feeding recommendations.

A review of current randomized controlled trials suggest that the benefits of holding for preterm babies include shortened hospital stay, decreased illness, higher exclusive breastfeeding rates / longer breastfeeding duration, increased weight gain, improved temperature regulation, and improved maternal sense of competence.

Factors which might improve breastfeeding rates and duration in this country include broad expansion of and financial support for both BFHI hospitals as well as training for the health care personnel who support the mother - infant dyad during the breastfeeding period.

RESULTS: If observed associations between breastfeeding duration and maternal health are causal, we estimate that current breastfeeding rates result in 4,981 excess cases of breast cancer, 53,847 cases of hypertension, and 13,946 cases of myocardial infarction compared with a cohort of 1.88 million U.S. women who optimally breastfed.

Over the past decade, national estimates of breastfeeding initiation and duration have consistently improved among both non-Hispanic black (black) and non-Hispanic white (white) infants; however, differences in breastfeeding rates by race have persisted.

Because black infants have consistently had the lowest rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration compared to other groups, the state - level estimates presented are limited to black and white infants (2).

We assumed that breastfeeding rates were correlated between pregnancies based on several sources of observational data18, 19 and used data from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II to model breastfeeding duration in a subsequent pregnancy contingent on duration of breastfeeding for the prior birth.19

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.

One reason that rates are so high initially and then plummet almost immediately when it comes to exclusivity and duration is because most women are not c omfortable breastfeeding in public because the public is not comfortable seeing them breastfeed.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, 2 with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

Increasing the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration is a national health objective and one of the goals of Healthy People 2000.

Furthermore, there has been no large - scale study of the impact of this intervention on breastfeeding initiation and duration, although a study based in Scotland has provided some evidence for an association between birth in a Baby Friendly facility and increased rates of breastfeeding at 1 week of age.16, 17

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

The authors conclude that the use of sidecar cribs does not affect breastfeeding duration or rates of exclusive breastfeeding or the frequency of bed - sharing once home.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding breastfeeding difficulties.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

To determine factors influencing feeding decisions, breastfeeding and / or bottle initiation rates, as well as breastfeeding duration.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

I love this article... thank you so much for naming this and supporting culturally specific breastfeeding coalitions as important parts of a system of equity and empowerment to address healing inequities in breastfeeding rates and duration and support.

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

Two studies reported «breastfeeding» rates, but did not specify whether this was any or exclusive; Serwint 1996 reported rates at 30 and 60 days, while Winterburn 2003 reported initiation at birth, and duration at 10 days, one month, six weeks, three months and six months.

Unfortunately, significant racial / ethnic disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration exist in the US with black and some Latina women having lower rates of both as compared with white women.

Since 1984, the Surgeon General's office has issued serial publications8, 9 that have focused on increasing the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration for both healthy and vulnerable populations, eg, low birth weight (LBW; < 2500 g) infants; and low income, minority, and employed women.

Our study documented lower rates of overweight among children who were breastfed for longer durations.

The specific aims for these projects did not directly address initiation and duration, but they targeted interventions that were likely to result in increased breastfeeding rates (Table 2).

For the same time period, 25 (6.9 %) of the 362 projects were determined to have an indirect impact on increasing the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration.

This likely contributed to the nonsignificant difference in breastfeeding initiation and duration rates between the study groups.

There is a concern that participating control individuals have a higher socioeconomic status than nonparticipating control individuals, 19 and in developed countries, maternal socioeconomic status plays a role in the decision to breastfeed and its duration.59, 60 If indeed the control individuals have higher socioeconomic status and therefore higher breastfeeding rates, it constitutes a differential misclassification that might lead to overestimation of the association between breastfeeding and leukemia.

Inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes continues to undermine efforts to improve breastfeeding rates and duration worldwide.

Data indicate that the rate of initiation and duration of breastfeeding in the United States are well below the Healthy People 2010 goals (see Table 1).

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One research summary found that after reviewing all available studies regarding the outcomes of using IBCLCs, mothers who had higher breastfeeding initiation rates, a longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding, a longer duration of any breastfeeding, higher breastfeeding rates for all infant age groups, AND better maternal and infant health outcomes as compared to those who didn't seek out IBCLC support (5).

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

It aims to increase breastfeeding rates and duration and to inform and empower mothers.

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success After Adjustment for Covariates

In 2010 and 2011, she worked on lowering obesity rates by increasing breastfeeding exclusivity and duration through the federally funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant.