It is important that clinicians, health educators, and policymakers are aware of patterns of media coverage and the complex cultural background within which women are making
choices about infant feeding.
Many new mothers are making
choices about infant feeding without knowing breastfeeding can help reduce cancer risks for both themselves and their children.
Not exact matches
Promoting the WHO Code is
about ensuring the dissemination of appropriate information
about infant feeding and supporting parents»
choice in the matter, and is not an attack against any parents for their own
choices or experiences in
infant feeding.
Practice Update: HIV and breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know
about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed
choice in
infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast still best?
BFUSA believes: (1) human milk
fed through direct breastfeeding is the optimal way for human
infants to be nurtured and nourished; (2) the precious first days should be protected as a time of bonding and support not influenced by commercial interests; and (3) every mother should be informed
about the benefits of breastfeeding and respected to make her own
choice.
She describes a journey spanning promotion of maternal
infant feeding choice in the face of an uncertain outcome to a clear recommendation based on up - to - date evidence
about child - survival.