Not exact matches
As others have also pointed out there is a wealth of empirical
evidence that
supports the fact that infants who sleep better have better child -
mother interactions (i.e. http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567 (09) 64116 - 2 / abstract)- again, more references can be provided upon request.
However,
evidence that overall fathers can (and often do) «buffer» their children against the worst effects of their
mothers» depression is found from a study that measured what happened when the fathers didn't provide
support:
I became passionate about empowering new
mothers with empathetic
support and reliable,
evidence - based information, giving them the confidence necessary to watch their babies grow with pride.
Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time
mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No
evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for
mother or baby.
Excellent postpartum
support for
mothers that starts right from the hospital; ample opportunities for rooming in and bonding; precise
support from lactation consultants and nurses for newborns and
mothers; the provision of accurate and
evidence - based information for parents to make informed choices
Through her own experiences, Jennifer also saw the need for a more realistic, personalized and
evidence - based approach to educating and
supporting new
mothers about breastfeeding.
Our mission is to elevate the nursing
mother to a place in society where she receives all the necessary
support to successfully nurse a child, where scientific
evidence overrides marketing influences, and a woman does not fear breastfeeding in public.
• 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
There is
evidence (Rudel, Fenton, Ackerman, Euling, & Makris, 2011) to
support a theory that exposure to high levels of certain environmental contaminants, namely dioxin and other endocrine disruptors, while in utero (exposure to accumulated contaminants in your
mother's body before you're born) can predispose a woman to have insufficient breast growth during adolescence and pregnancy, the two times in her life her breasts should be growing.
She appreciates the emotional impact breastfeeding challenges can have on
mother, baby and family and strives to provide caring,
evidenced based
support during this time.
The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized democracies that apply the latest scientific
evidence to
support and facilitate normal, physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes — including psychological satisfaction for the
mother.
Currently, there is inconclusive
evidence to
support or refute the practice of giving LCPUFA supplementation to breastfeeding
mothers in order to improve neurodevelopment or visual acuity.
Supported by Unicef UK, the network shares and promotes
evidence - based practice around infant feeding and very early childhood development to deliver optimum health and wellbeing outcomes for
mothers and babies (and their families).
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial
Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men:
evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context
evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project
Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
Mother - to -
Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding
mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding;
evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context
evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of
Evidence related to IYCF in the context
Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Currently, there is inconclusive
evidence to
support or refute the practice of giving LCPUFA supplementation to breastfeeding
mothers in order to improve neurodevelopment.
Since its inception over two decades ago, we have seen maternity wards transform from places historically infused with enormous influence from formula companies and default maternity care and infant feeding practices that undermined breastfeeding, to environments in which
evidenced - based care is provided, education is free from commercial interests, and
mothers are
supported in reaching their infant feeding goals.
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?
There is
evidence from all over the world that both
mothers and babies do better when they are
supported in their efforts to breastfeed.
We at BirthSwell believe that you, the
mother, will make the right help decisions for your pregnancy and birth when you have access at
evidence based information and strong
support system.
Our results
support current
evidence for educational intervention since
mothers with more information about EB, and therefore more knowledge, are more likely to practice it than their counterparts who lack enough information.
We could not draw conclusions from the
evidence available from randomised controlled trials about whether education and
support helps
mothers of multiples to breastfeed.
Support and education about breastfeeding has been found to improve the duration of any breastfeeding for healthy term infants and their mothers, however evidence is lacking about interventions that are effective to support women with twins or higher order mul
Support and education about breastfeeding has been found to improve the duration of any breastfeeding for healthy term infants and their
mothers, however
evidence is lacking about interventions that are effective to
support women with twins or higher order mul
support women with twins or higher order multiples.
There is some
evidence that breastfeeding education and peer and professional
support can increase the initiation of breastfeeding (Balogun 2016), and there is good
evidence that
support interventions by professionals or peers are effective in increasing the duration of any and exclusive breastfeeding for
mothers of healthy term singletons (McFadden 2017).
Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother - Friendly Care in the Journal of Perinatal Education, 2007, Issue 16, a Special Supplement The result of a 2 - year research project by a team of maternity care experts, this important work reviews 15 years worth of scientific studies which and found that the evidence supports complying with each aspect of the ten steps of Mother - Friend
Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of
Mother - Friendly Care in the Journal of Perinatal Education, 2007, Issue 16, a Special Supplement The result of a 2 - year research project by a team of maternity care experts, this important work reviews 15 years worth of scientific studies which and found that the
evidence supports complying with each aspect of the ten steps of Mother - Friend
evidence supports complying with each aspect of the ten steps of
Mother - Friendly Care.
I'll grant you that there are some issue - specific Internet message boards, mommy blogs, and mommy - and - me playgroups out there that strongly advocate for co-sleeping, and Badinter relies on these types of minor players to
support her majorly sweeping arguments, citing media like «Alternamoms.com» as
evidence of the widespread parental shaming of American
mothers.
Although I am uncertain how to objectively validate my own (or my kids») experience in terms of this particular research, I can comfortably concur with the wealth of
evidence that
supports co-sleeping as an integral part of
mother - infant bonding.
It is important to speak the same «language» as the expect
mother and through
evidence - based research be able to guide her properly while
supporting her in this transitional point in her life.
It is important to speak the same «language» as the expecting
mother and through
evidence - based research be able to guide her properly while
supporting her in this transitional point in her life.
If there is trauma involved, families should find great comfort in the robust
evidence that in time and with
evidence based
support,
mothers and infants can, and do, heal and go on to thrive in their relationships.
These underpin the role of a confident and competent birth professional who is able to provide opportunities for empowerment, informed choice and
evidence - based care for
mothers seeking education and
support.
You know that
mothers need both a good education, with
evidence - based information and the
support from their partners, families, friends, doctors, midwives, and nurses.
«According to the
evidence summarized in this report, the innate hormonal physiology of
mothers and babies — when promoted,
supported, and protected — has significant benefits for both during the critical transitions of labor, birth, and the early postpartum and newborn periods, likely extending into the future by optimizing breastfeeding and attachment.
Most
mothers in the UK choose to breastfeed (over 80 % initiate) but many stop before they wish to because they haven't receive the consistent,
evidence - based
support they need to succeed (Infant Feeding Survey 2010).
There is no scientific
evidence to
support this claim, and yet massive advertising campaigns have been launched to convince Canadian
mothers that Nestlé's formula contains the same vital ingredients as breastmilk.
Infant Feeding and HIV: Policies and programmes to
support HIV +
mothers in their feeding decisions
supported by up to date
evidence (WHO Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010)
Those who
support mothers with breastfeeding have much anecdotal
evidence between them of extensive variation between health professionals in attitudes and knowledge, from being hugely supportive on the one hand to dismissive of breastfeeding on the other.
There is a smaller amount of
evidence that doula
support in labor can lower postpartum depression in
mothers.
The women formed a new kind of discussion club - a place where a nursing
mother could go to get answers to her questions, draw emotional
support and get solid
evidence that she wasn't the only woman on Earth ignoring her doctor's advice that formula was better for her child.
An individual who will be there to
support them emotionally, physically and give
evidence - based
support for the
mother and family.
Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social
support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding
support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to
support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding
support individual
mothers.5 — 9
Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding
Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific
evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
While antenatal education and counselling is helpful, 8 68 % of
mothers said that early problems with breast feeding was the main reason they stopped nursing before two months postpartum.7 Other barriers were lack of knowledge about breast feeding and lack of
support from health professionals.7 Women value being shown how to breast feed rather than being told how to.9 10
Evidence of effective interventions to improve exclusive breast feeding for the recommended duration of six months is sparse.
There is strong
evidence that fathers can influence the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding [22, 23], contribute to maternal breastfeeding confidence [24 — 27], influence decisions regarding duration and weaning [28], and that without fathers»
support mothers are more likely to breastfeed for a shorter duration [29, 30].
In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of
evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not
support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021
mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups:
mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and
mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.
Other
evidence supports the fact that LBW infants who are fed their
mother's milk, compared to those fed bovine - based formula, have better short - term visual and developmental outcomes, although variables such as daily intake and duration of breastfeeding should also be considered.
Evidence supports a link between breastfeeding and positive
mother - infant and neurobehavioural outcomes in the short term.
No Separation of
Mother and Baby with Unlimited Opportunity for Breastfeeding Lamaze International Education Council, Crenshaw Jeannette, RN, MSN, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE, Phyllis H. Klaus, CSW, MFT, and Marshall H. Klaus, MD In this position paper — one of six care practice papers published by Lamaze International and reprinted here with permission — the value of keeping
mothers and their babies together from the moment of birth is discussed and presented as an
evidenced - based practice that helps promote, protect, and
support normal birth.
These include a new «at - risk» code in Oregon that allows young children to receive Medicaid - covered mental health services before they have a full - blown mental health disorder; Medicaid coverage in Oregon and Michigan for
evidence - based parenting programs that can help parents learn parenting practices that promote a positive parent - child relationship and address challenging child behavior; and extensive training and
support for pediatricians in Minnesota who want to conduct maternal depression screening during well - child visits and respond appropriately when the screen indicates that the
mother needs further evaluation and
support.
In response, the health department led the creation of an
evidence - based initiative, B'More for Healthy Babies, that offers extensive
support services to
mothers and that sends nurses and counselors on home visits to low - income families.
Epidemiologic data has shown that chronic depression, stress, and lack of social
support are all risk factors for cancer.14 A study in humans even showed chronic depression and even the death of a
mother during childhood to be associated with increased breast cancer in women.15 While we do not have concrete
evidence in humans, animal studies more definitively point to stress as a cause of cancer.
In my experience as a nutritional therapist (and in my own experience as a
mother) I have seen overwhelming clinical
evidence to
support the hypothesis that the diets we begin with set the stage for our health for the rest of our lives.