Sentences with phrase «increasing duration of breastfeeding»

Furthermore, there was a statistically significant trend of decreasing risk of RA with increasing duration of breastfeeding.

Rooming - in for new mother and infant versus separate care for increasing the duration of breastfeeding.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

Furthermore, there was a statistically significant trend of decreasing risk of RA with increasing duration of breastfeeding.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

Breastfeeding should be continued for at least the first year of life and beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child... Increased duration of breastfeeding confers significant health and developmental benefits for the child and the mother... There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychological or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer.»

Our support can dramatically increase the duration of breastfeeding and help parents reach their breastfeeding goals.

Despite the argument that «breast is best» and introducing a bottle can cause nipple confusion or make babies «lazy» at the breast, a study published in Pediatrics concluded that early supplementing may actually increase the duration of your breastfeeding journey.

«Increased duration of breastfeeding confers significant health and developmental benefits for the child and the mother, especially in delaying return of fertility (thereby promoting optimal intervals between births)... There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychologic or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer.»

This review is one in a series of Cochrane reviews examining education and support interventions to promote the initiation of breastfeeding and to increase the duration of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding (Balogun 2016; Lumbiganon 2016; McFadden 2017).

There is less conclusive evidence that antenatal education alone is effective to increase the duration of breastfeeding (Lumbiganon 2016).

We conducted a controlled trial to test the hypothesis that teaching the fathers how to prevent and manage breastfeeding problems is associated with an increased duration of breastfeeding.

The right support also increases the duration of breastfeeding.

Supporting mother - infant bonding increases the duration of breastfeeding in mothers with newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit

Interventions to increase the duration of breastfeeding in obese mothers: the Bassett Improving Breastfeeding Study

has found that: these benefits increase with increased exclusiveness of breastfeeding during the first six months of life, and thereafter with increased duration of breastfeeding with complementary foods, and programme intervention can result in positive changes in breastfeeding behaviour

The Northeast Florida team focused on breastfeeding in Phase 1 and Phase 2 and was able to increase the duration of breastfeeding in their participants.

Not exact matches

This unsubstantiated finding is that «increased breastfeeding duration has had no effect on overall physical or pscychological health outcomes of either children or mothers.»

Lactose concentration in breastmilk increases over the duration of breastfeeding.

A recent study found that «epidurals, postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum surgery, and short labor duration increased depressive symptoms» (Kendall - Tackett, Cong & Hale, 2015) in addition to decreasing the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.

Additional studies should evaluate whether increased competence in caring for breastfeeding mothers and infants correlates with longer duration of breastfeeding or fewer reported problems.

A few potted things the boycott and campaign has achieved: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (despite what Nestlé told the bloggers, it opposed the Code - scans of documents from the time are on our site), the Code's implementation in 70 countries to greater or lesser degrees, breastfeeding rates in countries taking action to stop malpractice increasing (Brazil from median duration 3 months in the 1980s to 10 months today), Nestlé changing its policy on milk nurses and baby pictures on formula, stopping specific cases of malpractice such as Nestlé promoting formula in Botswana as preventing diarrhoea etc. etc..

«All of these valuable resources have working relationships in the Chaffee County Breastfeeding Coalition (CCBC) and are committed to increasing breastfeeding duration and exclusivity in Chaffee County,» Breastfeeding Coalition (CCBC) and are committed to increasing breastfeeding duration and exclusivity in Chaffee County,» breastfeeding duration and exclusivity in Chaffee County,» says Redmond.

«We found that in addition to raising IQs that the percentage of adults with below - optimal IQs went down with every increase in the duration of breastfeeding,» she said.

Studies have shown that a longer duration of breastfeeding may lead to increased IQ scores and cognitive development.

Laws protecting the right to nurse aim to change attitudes and promote increased incidence and duration of breastfeeding.

In fact, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Association Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Adult Intelligence, showed an over 6 point increase in IQ between babies that breastfed for less than a month and those that breastfed for at least 7 to 9 months.

They are trained to write prescriptions for psychiatric drugs rather then to increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of breastfeeding behaviors.

Does increased duration of exclusive breastfeeding protect against helicobacter pylori infection?

A review of current randomized controlled trials suggest that the benefits of holding for preterm babies include shortened hospital stay, decreased illness, higher exclusive breastfeeding rates / longer breastfeeding duration, increased weight gain, improved temperature regulation, and improved maternal sense of competence.

«Results: Formula use at birth or short breastfeeding duration were significantly associated with low levels of nurturance, high levels of reported anxiety and increased maternal use of Parent - led routines.

The focus of all these projects was the development of innovative practices that aimed to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding, especially amongst those groups who were least likely to breastfeed.

The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding were developed by a team of global experts and consist of evidence - based practices that have been shown to increase breastfeeding initiation Breastfeeding were developed by a team of global experts and consist of evidence - based practices that have been shown to increase breastfeeding initiation breastfeeding initiation and duration.

Breastfeeding is also associated with maternal health outcomes.5 Shorter duration of lactation is associated with increased maternal breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7,8 hypertension, 9 — 11 type 2 diabetes mellitus, 9,12 and myocardial infarction (MI).9, 13 We estimate the burden of maternal disease that might be averted if more mothers were able to adhere to infant feeding recommendations, assuming a causal association between breastfeeding and matBreastfeeding is also associated with maternal health outcomes.5 Shorter duration of lactation is associated with increased maternal breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7,8 hypertension, 9 — 11 type 2 diabetes mellitus, 9,12 and myocardial infarction (MI).9, 13 We estimate the burden of maternal disease that might be averted if more mothers were able to adhere to infant feeding recommendations, assuming a causal association between breastfeeding and matbreastfeeding and maternal health.

Indeed, a long duration of breastfeeding (> 7 months) has been associated with a reduced risk of overweight and obesity, 2 while a short duration (≤ 4 months) may not be sufficient to obtain the beneficial effects of breastfeeding.3 Another confounding factor is early exposure to antibiotics, which is increasing even for minor infections.

However, the organization also called for more research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31

Breastfeeding might have a prolonged protective effect by influencing the severity, including hospital admission and frequency, of common infectious diseases.8, 38 However, immunologic evidence of a prolonged protective effect of increased dose and duration of breastfeeding has not been wellBreastfeeding might have a prolonged protective effect by influencing the severity, including hospital admission and frequency, of common infectious diseases.8, 38 However, immunologic evidence of a prolonged protective effect of increased dose and duration of breastfeeding has not been wellbreastfeeding has not been well established.

There has been limited evaluation of the effectiveness of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative for increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration.

When breastfeeding support is offered to women, the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding is increased.

The protective effect of breastfeeding against obesity is consistent and appears to increase with the duration of breastfeeding (Arenz et al., 2004).

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, 2 with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

A randomized trial in the UK of the Baby Friendly Initiative in conjunction with peer - support programmes is needed to determine the most effective policy to increase breastfeeding duration.

Interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration are based on extensive evidence from both observational and intervention studies of short - and long - term health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.13 — 15 Nevertheless, to our knowledge none of previous studies has systematically examined whether the increases in breastfeeding resulting from such interventions have equally benefited all socioeconomic groups.

Increasing the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration is a national health objective and one of the goals of Healthy People 2000.

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Furthermore, there has been no large - scale study of the impact of this intervention on breastfeeding initiation and duration, although a study based in Scotland has provided some evidence for an association between birth in a Baby Friendly facility and increased rates of breastfeeding at 1 week of age.16, 17

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.