Sentences with phrase «median duration of breastfeeding»

The main effect of this intervention was a significant, nearly 3-fold increase in the median duration of any breastfeeding among the intervention compared with the attention control and usual care groups (177 vs. 42 vs. 61 d, respectively; P < 0.001).

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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..

In particular, breastfeeding may be of concern because it has been shown to be associated with both child's use of antibiotics36, 37 and cow's milk allergy, although inconsistently so.38 In a large Finnish birth cohort, the median durations of exclusive and total breastfeeding were 1.4 months and 7.0 months, respectively, and the proportion of breastfed infants decreased from 95 % at the age of 1 month to 58 % at the age of 6 months.39 Another limitation is our reliance on pharmacy records, which provides only a rough estimation of drug use.

In the survey of 202 mothers mentioned previously, 67 % eventually weaned from the shield and breastfed without it, with the length of shield use ranging from one day to five months and a median duration of two weeks (Powers & Tapia, 2004).

Significantly different patterns of breastfeeding continuation are evident for the Puerto Ricans (median breastfeeding duration, < 0.5 mo) versus other Hispanic women derived primarily from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia (median breastfeeding duration, > 6.0 mo) in this sample of low - income women -LRB-(P < 0.05).

The researchers reported that approximately 99 % of women had given birth, and 97 % reported a history of breastfeeding with a median duration of 12 months per child.

Although there were insufficient data to explore the influence of the duration of feeding, exclusively breastfed persons are likely to represent a group who are breastfed for longer periods: ie, median breastfeeding durations of 4 — 9 mo were reported among the 3 studies with available data (24, 33, 35, 40).