Sentences with phrase «knowledge about breast»

Our investments are made with a strategic focus on the impact on the lives of those most affected by breast cancer, including improving quality of life and increasing knowledge about breast cancer risk reduction and treatment.

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.

Our friends at Bright Pink have made it their mission to spread knowledge about breast and ovarian cancer, empowering women to be proactive about their health.

Although her important and main topic was nutrition and health during pregnancy, her comments about breast - feeding demonstrated her up - to - date knowledge about breast - feeding issues.

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LEILANI WILDE: Thank you so much Cindy and the panelists for sharing your knowledge and experience with us about breastfeeding with large breasts and for our Boob Group club members our conversation will continue after the end of this show.

In many societies, children grow up seeing their moms and aunts and friends breastfeed, and the knowledge and awareness about how to breast feed is naturally passed down from generation to generation.

Being both a mom who breast fed twins and an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, I'm often asked about tips for breastfeeding twins or am finding myself being approached about my experiences whether they be first - hand or knowledge gained from within my profession.

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?

i am a firm believer in BREAST IS BEST!my daughter is now 9 mths and goin strong!she is so healthy - from birth she was 10lbs2oz - now she is around 22 lbs and 30in tall and almost walking!i started gvin her a little bit of baby food around 5 mths (she actually wasnt impressed!she prefers bits of table food) but she really only wants to nurse!i plan on nursing her untill shes ready to quit - despite my moms jokes about me in the future sitting in her 1st grade class and nursing her in the back!i actually plan on becoming a breastfeeding advocate and supporter for new moms that really want to breastfeed!i try to encourage any pregger (even strangers) and i cant wait to gain more knowledge so i can really help others!ther is such a special connection that i feel as i nourish my child and she stares up into my eyes!and its so convinent - its the all - in - one fix!

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 rates.

In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Legislator Lynne M. Dixon, Hamburg, declared October 20th Breast Cancer Awareness Day in Erie County in an effort to increase public knowledge about the importance of early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Now, as we celebrate our 15th anniversary, I remain actively involved in the cultural conversation about breast cancer and fiercely committed to arming young people with knowledge of breast health.

This book is in no way a replacement for our other books, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause, and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, which are wonderful, intelligent, useful classics that will add greatly to every woman's knowledge and understanding of her body.