In recognizing the provision of non — breast milk fluids to breastfed infants as a quality - of - care issue, in 2010, The Joint Commission, a major organization that accredits and certifies U.S. hospitals, added
exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization as a new quality of care measure.
USBC — Implementing The Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measure on
Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding
This finding offers new evidence to support the tenets of the World Health Organization's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, which promotes
exclusive breast milk feeding beginning at birth in hospitals and birthing centers and the avoidance of formula supplementation unless deemed medically necessary (http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/bfhi/en/).
Infants who were fed breast milk and who had never been given formula prior to the time of stool collection were given the status of
exclusive breast milk feeding.
Stopping exclusive breastfeeding or
exclusive breast milk feeding before four to six weeks postpartum for each baby.
Stopping exclusive breastfeeding or
exclusive breast milk feeding before six months postpartum for each baby.
Stopping exclusive breastfeeding or
exclusive breast milk feeding (baby has only ever been given breast milk and never given formula, solid foods or any other liquids McAndrew 2012) before four to six weeks postpartum for each baby.
Stopping exclusive breastfeeding or
exclusive breast milk feeding before two, three, nine and 12 months postpartum.
The recently - released «clarification» on PC - 05a, the controversial performance measure of The Joint Commission (TJC)'s Perinatal Care data element related to «
exclusive breast milk feeding» during the hospital stay, has completely...
Not exact matches
For mothers, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants, with a strong chance of having food allergies due to family history, to have
exclusive breast -
feeding for six months, use a hypoallergenic formulas when not
breast -
feeding, have mother avoid peanuts and tree nuts during lactation, delay introduction of cow's
milk until 12 months, eggs until 24 months, and peanuts, tree nuts, and fish until age 3, and to have no maternal dietary restriction during pregnancy.
I turned to
exclusive pumping, and through pumping, I found a way to not only give my son
breast milk, but also BOND with him while
feeding him.
Exclusive pumping is also called EPing and
breast milk feeding.
At -
breast supplementing not only allows a mother and her baby to have an
exclusive breastfeeding relationship, it can also maximize the amount of
milk that the baby removes from the
breast because he spends the whole
feeding at the
breast.
Many people
feeding pumped
breast milk (including me, when I was a new, confused, and sleep - deprived
exclusive pumper) refer to formula
feeding guidelines for an idea of how much they should be giving their babies.
It has lead to asking women to sign «contracts» while still in hospital, stating that
breast milk was by far the best food for their child and they would commit to
exclusive breast feeding.
WHO recommends
exclusive breastfeeding for six months continued up to two years with complementary foods but too many babies in the Region are
fed breast -
milk substitutes, such as infant formula and «growing - up
milks».
Exclusive Breastfeeding:
Feeding a baby only
breast milk and no other foods or liquids unless advised by the baby's health care professional.
Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding diff
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation,
exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding diff
exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of
breast -
milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant
feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.
Here are a couple good examples of the studies that show that early introduction of solid foods (before 6 - 9 months) slows growth: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+effect+of+beikost+on+the+diet+of+
breast-
fed+infants http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9347292 Quote: «Those results suggest that for
breast -
fed infants, early introduction of [other foods] reduces
milk consumption and may lead to significantly lower weight gain than continuation of the
exclusive breast -
milk diet.»
Exclusive breastfeeding refers to
feeding the infant only
breast milk — nothing else, not even water — for six months, followed by continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary
feeding up to and beyond two years of age.1
Breastfeeding is
exclusive when babies are
fed only
breast milk or expressed
milk, and receive no other liquid or solid, not even water, with the exception of oral rehydration solutions, medicines, minerals or vitamins drops or syrups [11].
However, the same surveys show that
exclusive breast -
feeding, i.e., giving the infant no other fluid or food than
breast milk, is a very infrequent practice.
Most recent innovations include a
feeding device that allows babies to apply the same sucking behaviour as learned on the
breast, as well as Initiation and 2 - Phase Expression Technologies -
exclusive pumping patterns to support mothers to initiate, build and maintain their
milk supply.
An
exclusive breast milk diet can meet the nutritional needs of term babies for the first six months, with continued
breast milk feeding in addition to solid foods for the first two years of life.
The number of infants receiving mixed
feeding was too small (table 1) to estimate precisely its effect on diarrhoeal disease, and for further analysis they were combined either with
exclusive breast milk or with formula.
The American Academy of Pediatrics stated that there was «evidence that
exclusive breast -
feeding for at least 4 months compared with
feeding intact cow
milk protein formula decreases the cumulative incidence of atopic dermatitis and cow
milk allergy in the first 2 years of life» (22).
Infant
feeding was defined as current
milk feeding (
exclusive breast milk, mixed
feeding, or formula), whether the infant was weaned onto solids, and, for formula
fed infants, whether they were ever
breast fed and for how long.
Our main exposures were the following: (1) duration of any breastfeeding in months; (2) duration of
exclusive breastfeeding in months, defined as
feeding breast milk but no solid foods or non —
breast milk liquids (except water) to age 6 months; and (3) breastfeeding status at age 6 months, categorized as «formula only, never
breast fed,» «formula only, weaned,» «mixed formula and
breast milk,» and «
breast milk only, no formula.»
Improvements in either
exclusive breastfeeding rates or in the percentage of
feedings derived from
breast milk were observed in 2 PC studies, along with improvements in health outcomes.
Although a few previous studies have found associations between infant
feeding and intestinal microbiome composition,9 - 12, 14 to our knowledge, none has examined the relative contribution of combination
feeding (
breast milk and formula) alongside
exclusive formula or breastfeeding to overall microbial community composition.
In addition, Bonuck et al. assessed breastfeeding intensity (based on the percentage of
feedings derived from
breast milk) compared with the stricter assessment of
exclusive breastfeeding used by Petrova et al..
In pairwise comparisons of the 3
feeding methods,
exclusive breastfeeding was associated with a microbiome community distinct from that of infants who were either exclusively formula
fed (P =.04; Q =.05) or
fed a combination of
breast milk and formula prior to stool collection (P =.02; Q =.04).
Stuebe in the past has pushed back against
Fed Is Best's campaign for all parents to be warned about rare brain damage risks that can result from insufficient
breast milk supply, writing that it could threaten the effort to normalize
exclusive breastfeeding and unnecessarily expose newborns to supplemental formula
feeding, which could jeopardize the establishment of a consistent breastfeeding routine.
BF, breastfeeding; BM,
breast milk; C, control; EBF,
exclusive breastfeeding; FF, formula
feeding; I, intervention; IBCLC, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant; LC, lactation consultant; PC, peer counseling; PP, postpartum; RN, registered nurse; WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of
exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of
breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated
milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of
breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.
Overall breastfeeding is defined as those infants that are
fed exclusively
breast milk plus those infants that are breastfed but also receive some type of supplemental nutrition (infant formula, rice, etc.), in other words, it is the sum of the combination rate plus the
exclusive breastfeeding rate.
This fact needs to be continually reiterated to decision makers as otherwise manufacturers of
breast milk substitutes will capitalise on HIV infection as a reason for promoting free samples of their formula.10 It is extraordinary that the Wall Street Journal painted the baby food manufacturers as heroes poised to save African children from certain death because of their offer to donate free formula to HIV infected mothers.11 The WHO recommends avoidance of
breast feeding by HIV infected mothers only if replacement
feeding is feasible, safe, sustainable, and affordable — otherwise
exclusive breast feeding is recommended during the first six months of life.12 Non-infected women must be given access to credible information, quality care, and support, in order to empower them to make informed decisions regarding
feeding of their infant.13
Whatever the situation,
exclusive pumping (referred to as «eping» in breastfeeding circles) is the next best alternative to nursing exclusively, and for some moms and babies eping is the only way to
feed breast milk exclusively.
If a baby is on an
exclusive breast milk diet, even if the breastfeeding parent isn't directly
feeding the baby, she still had to put in extra work to pump
milk ahead of time in anticipation of having another caregiver help her out.
He encourages EBF (
Exclusive Breast feeding) until 6 months and I wean at 2 years He always teases that our kids are «
milk monsters» because they love their milkies!
Primary:
exclusive breastfeeding at 12 weeks postbirth (additional breastfeeding information regarding partial breastfeeding, expressed
breast milk and formula
feeding was also collected)
Exclusive breastfeeding means to
feed your baby only
breast milk and no other foods or liquids unless advised by the baby's doctor.