The breastfeeding research knowledge available clearly shows that if all women in the United States breastfed for just six months exclusively, the nation would save $ 3.6 billion a year, mostly in health care costs and time spent paying parents for sick time to stay home to care for their children.
Not exact matches
I spent the next six days
researching, reading the very few success stories, and reaching out to anyone I knew with
breastfeeding knowledge.
Modern Education acknowledges that there is consistent
research about the benefits of
breastfeeding, lactation how - to
knowledge, and birth which deserves to be passed to every family.
• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure
breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of
breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based
knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in
research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of
breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support
breastfeeding
Before I started to
breastfeed, I read everything I could about it so I have both personal experience and
knowledge of current
research that I can share with others about how to do it and why.
They must also have an understanding of ethical and legal issues and the ability to interpret
research as well as having
knowledge of infant growth parameters, child development, and how to use
breastfeeding equipment, technology and techniques.
Whilst
research suggests that women make infant feeding decisions irrespective of their contact with health professionals, it is clear that the health promotion message — breast is best — has been successful in improving women's
knowledge and understanding of the benefits of
breastfeeding for both themselves and their babies.
The motivation for the
research was the
knowledge that breast cancer decreases with
breastfeeding, Reid said in a news release from the American Society for Microbiology.