Sentences with phrase «duration of the breastfeeding period»

Undiagnosed maternal celiac disease may cause a short duration of the breastfeeding period.

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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.

Studies designed to test the effectiveness of intervention in the extension of breastfeeding to six months have concluded that prenatal education on breastfeeding is not enough to extend the duration, and that intervention during both prenatal and postnatal periods might be more effective [16].

Another study had been conducted by Yvonne et al. to assess the impact of the distribution of educational booklets during the postnatal period, but this time over the duration of complete breastfeeding, and the result was an insignificant difference noted for the duration of breastfeeding between the study group and the control group [21].

Research demonstrates that there is a link between depressive symptoms and breastfeeding duration and that lack of preparation for common physical and emotional symptoms and experiences which occur in the postpartum period may be associated with both.

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.

Prenatal maternal education and environmental support that extends into the postnatal period can promote longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding [38].

Prenatal maternal education and environmental lactation support that extends into the postnatal period can promote longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding.

Although there were insufficient data to explore the influence of the duration of feeding, exclusively breastfed persons are likely to represent a group who are breastfed for longer periods: ie, median breastfeeding durations of 4 — 9 mo were reported among the 3 studies with available data (24, 33, 35, 40).

[38] A longer period of breastfeeding is associated with a shorter duration of some middle ear infections (otitis media with effusion, OME) in the first two years of life.

It is relatively easy to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding in transitional societies by encouraging early mother - infant interaction through rooming - in and by providing maternal support in the postpartum period.