Sentences with phrase «effect of exclusive breastfeeding»

The authors note the effect of exclusive breastfeeding «seems to be plausible» since disease activity returned in the second half of the postpartum year in exclusively breastfeeding women, corresponding to the introduction of supplemental feedings and the return of menstruation.

The effect of exclusive breastfeeding on postpartum risk of MS relapse is controversial with conflicting study results.

The effect of exclusive breastfeeding on postpartum risk of MS relapse is controversial with conflicting study results.

No increase in childhood overweight Direct evidence for the effect of exclusive breastfeeding on childhood overweight comes from a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis in which individuals with any breastfeeding were shown to be less likely to be overweight or obese later in life compared to non-breastfed individuals.

In the 1980's, he was the first researcher to show the protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding against infant mortality, and one of the leaders of the creation of the World Health Child Growth Standards based on breastfed infants.

Supplementing with formula does not cure the illness, and may rob the baby of the beneficial effects of exclusive breastfeeding.

To assess the effects of exclusive breastfeeding for six months versus exclusive breastfeeding for three to four months on child health, growth, and development, and on maternal health.

Fourth, higher quality maternal interactions have been shown to improve brain development at 5, 10 and 24 months.34 Fifth, there is growing evidence to suggest that the beneficial effects of exclusive breastfeeding may be moderated by the infant's genome, 35,36 and the metabolism of the fatty acids in maternal breast milk.37 For example, Krol et al. 36 showed that infants exclusively breastfed for a longer duration (above the 50th percentile) showed a heightened sensitivity and interest in a happy visual stimulus (eyes) than infants exclusively breastfed for a shorter duration (below the 50th percentile).

Growth effects of exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa: the cluster - randomised PROMISE EBF trial

Not exact matches

Exclusive or comfort breastfeeding: The amount of breastmilk your baby receives will also contribute to the effect of the drug on your baby.

«Breastfeeding is a natural safety net against the worst effects of poverty... exclusive breastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born inBreastfeeding is a natural safety net against the worst effects of poverty... exclusive breastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born inbreastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born into affluence.

Effect of early skin - to - skin mother - infant contact during the first 3 hours following birth on exclusive breastfeeding during the maternity hospital stay.

Third, to examine whether the effects of the duration of breastfeeding were a result of exclusive breastfeeding, the associations between duration of exclusive breastfeeding and upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections were examined.

The effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on infectious diseases at older ages in industrialized countries remain to be studied.

Adjustment for family history of asthma, house dust mite allergy, and hay fever did not materially change the effect sizes for the duration of exclusive breastfeeding with upper and lower respiratory tract infections.

Our use of observational data reflects the existing literature on lactation and maternal health; apart from a single randomized trial examining the effect of exclusive lactation duration on maternal weight loss, 48 there are no published studies of maternal health outcomes in randomized trials of breastfeeding.

Combined effects of maternal age and parity on successful initiation of exclusive breastfeeding.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

This study provided comprehensive evidence of the effect of interventions on early initiation, exclusive, continued and any breastfeeding rates when delivered in five settings: (i) Health systems and services (ii) Home and family environment (iii) Community environment (iv) Work environment (v) Policy environment or a combination of any of above.

«A lot of the protective effects we see in pregnancy [such as fewer relapses, which is also associated with exclusive breastfeeding] do seem to be hormonal — one theory suggests this may be mediated by changing levels of estriol during pregnancy and postpartum,» noted Lucassen, who was not involved in the study.

Exclusive breastfeeding until at least three months of age reduces the incidence of otitis media, and this effect persists four to 12 months after breastfeeding ceases.

Do not avoid Ghee to avoid your weight gain, remember side effect of these foods can be treated after exclusive breastfeeding and with regular exercises.

But here's the exciting part; when we added breastfeeding into the analyses, we found that exclusive breastfeeding actually lessened the effect of previous sexual assault!

A secondary objective was to assess the effects of prolonged exclusive breastfeeding (over six months) on child and maternal health in comparison to exclusive breastfeeding for six months.

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

Several studies have shown a cause - and - effect relation indicating that exclusive breastfeeding for six months, with no consumption of fluids or food, and subsequently continuation thereof as an important component of the infant's diet, is linked to great benefits for children [12].

Prenatal education topics that should be covered include: the benefits of breastfeeding, the importance of exclusive breastfeeding, basics of breastfeeding management, possible effect of analgesia / anesthesia on infant behavior, rationale for care practices such as skin - to - skin contact, rooming - in, and infant feeding cues.

Another limitation of prior investigations is the classification of infant feeding as ever vs never breastfed.4 Failure to account for partial vs exclusive breastfeeding or breastfeeding duration could lead to underestimation of the true effect of breastfeeding on child intelligence.

The contribution of bacteria through vaginal delivery followed by exclusive breastfeeding promotes specific microbial profiles that facilitate optimal nutrient metabolism and early systemic immune training.23 The potential short - and long - term effects of perturbations of the gut microbiome of infancy, as influenced by operative delivery or formula feeding, are beginning to be examined.

When exclusive breastfeeding is contrasted with lesser levels of breastfeeding, one can begin to measure the sizable health effects associated with this infant feeding pattern.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

While there is evidence for the effectiveness of professional support in prolonging duration of breast feeding and increasing rates of initiation of breast feeding, the strength of its effect on the rate of exclusive breastfeeding is unclear.11 12

Seven of these studies provided adjusted ORs, and on the basis of these studies, the pooled adjusted OR remained statistically significant at 0.55 (95 % CI: 0.44 — 0.69)(Fig 9).245 The protective effect of breastfeeding increased with exclusivity, with a univariable summary OR of 0.27 (95 % CI: 0.24 — 0.31) for exclusive breastfeeding of any duration.245

The primary objective of this review was to assess the effect on child health, growth and development, and on maternal health of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months vs exclusive breastfeeding for 3 - 4 months with mixed breastfeeding thereafter through 6 months.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

Breastfeeding in and of itself reduces the risk of SIDS; in a meta - analysis on the relationship between breastfeeding and SIDS, it was found that while any breastfeeding more than halves the risk of SIDS, exclusive breastfeeding has an ever greaterBreastfeeding in and of itself reduces the risk of SIDS; in a meta - analysis on the relationship between breastfeeding and SIDS, it was found that while any breastfeeding more than halves the risk of SIDS, exclusive breastfeeding has an ever greaterbreastfeeding and SIDS, it was found that while any breastfeeding more than halves the risk of SIDS, exclusive breastfeeding has an ever greaterbreastfeeding more than halves the risk of SIDS, exclusive breastfeeding has an ever greaterbreastfeeding has an ever greater effect [24].

At all ages, control infants were breastfed at higher rates than SIDS victims, and the protective effect of partial or exclusive breastfeeding remained statistically significant after adjustment for confounders.244 A recent meta - analysis that included 18 case - control studies revealed an unadjusted summary OR for any breastfeeding of 0.40 (95 % CI: 0.35 — 0.44).

Most studies (29/52) reported the effect of the intervention on rates of both any and exclusive breastfeeding.

This update of the review considered the evidence of the effect of breastfeeding support interventions on primary outcomes of stopping any or exclusive breastfeeding before four to six weeks and at up to six months postpartum.

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding at up to four to six weeks there appears to be differential treatment effect according to the number of support contacts, with four to eight contacts the most effective schedule.

Effect of intervention to improve breastfeeding technique on the frequency of exclusive breastfeeding and lactation - related problems

While the effect size of support interventions on reducing the cessation of any breastfeeding is modest, there is evidence of a greater effect on the prolongation of exclusive breastfeeding.

In this review, the greatest effect of breastfeeding support interventions on reducing cessation of exclusive breastfeeding before six months occurred in communities with high (over 80 %) levels of breastfeeding initiation.

We judged all outcomes to be of moderate quality - stopping «any» breastfeeding at up to six months; «any» breastfeeding between four to six weeks; stopping exclusive breastfeeding at up to six months; or stopping exclusive breastfeeding between four to six weeks; all analyses had substantial heterogeneity even with a random - effects model.

Effect of community - based promotion of exclusive breastfeeding on diarrhoeal illness and growth: a cluster randomised controlled trial

A couple things about this study are worth mentioning: a) they removed cases in which symptoms of cancer occurred in the first nine months or the child died in the first year, which may be where the effects of breastfeeding are strongest (though I certainly don't know this for a fact, but it is reasonable); and b) they did not examine exclusive breastfeeding, but rather any breastfeeding (this is important as the effects of breastfeeding are known to be strongest when breastfeeding is exclusive and it is also difficult to ascertain how little or how much women were breastfeeding when any breastfeeding is the variable of interest).

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding by four to six weeks the test for subgroup differences indicates a possible differential treatment effect (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 7.12, df = 2 (P = 0.03), I ² = 71.9 %).

[Effect of the baby friendly hospital initiative on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding in Kinshasa: a cluster randomized trial]

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding at up to six months, there appears to be a differential effect of the number of postnatal contacts, with four to eight contacts performing best.

We attempted to examine this by assessing the intensity of the intervention, and we found studies with four to eight visits to be associated with a more pronounced treatment effect on exclusive breastfeeding at final study assessment.