Sentences with phrase «of exclusive breast feeding»

In the UK Millennium Cohort Survey, six months of exclusive breast feeding was associated with a 53 % decrease in hospital admissions for diarrhoea and a 27 % decrease in respiratory tract infections.

Effect of exclusive breast feeding education on breast - feeding self - efficacy and maternal stress

At age 13 months, data on breast feeding and additional nutrition were collected in the same manner by a project paediatrician, and in addition the mothers were asked to retrospectively record the duration of exclusive breast feeding.

The recent NICE evidence into practice briefing on promotion of initiation and duration of breast feeding, 4 however, recommended that education and support should be targeted at women with low incomes to increase rates of exclusive breast feeding.

The primary outcomes were rates of exclusive breast feeding at discharge from the hospital and at two weeks, six weeks, three months, and six months after delivery.

Objective To investigate whether antenatal breast feeding education alone or postnatal lactation support alone improves rates of exclusive breast feeding compared with routine hospital care.

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

Available literature on the efficacy of interventions to improve rates of exclusive breast feeding is limited and controversial.

Our primary outcome was rates of exclusive breast feeding up to six months after delivery.

Main outcome measures Primary outcomes were rates of exclusive breast feeding at discharge from hospital and two weeks, six weeks, three months, and six months after delivery.

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.

Titled Six months of exclusive breast feeding: how good is the evidence?

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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.

In addition, exclusive use of breast - feeding is associated with a natural method of birth control.

I didn't perform some sort of magic that I can pass on, I just had the good fortune to have it work out with a minimum of fuss... I know a mum who has struggled for weeks and months, expressing, sns - ing, mixed feeding, and then getting from that point back to exclusive breastfeeding, only to have baby point - blank refuse the breast a few weeks down the line and having to at last admit defeat.

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.

There's no support for exclusive pumpers but lots of breast feeding cafes!

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.

In Nestlé's 2010 policy it spoke of «exclusive breast - feeding in the first six months of life», making no mention of breastfeeding beyond this.

Siimes MA, Salmenpera L, Perheentupa J. Exclusive breast - feeding for 9 months: risk of iron deficiency.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breast - feeding for a baby's first six months and continued breast - feeding for the second six months, along with solid foods.

One study, reported in the June 2013 issue of Neuroimage, found that exclusive breast feeding improved brain development in children «almost right off the bat» by increasing myelin content in the brain by an order of 20 - 30 percent compared to strictly formula - fed babies.

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 diffExclusive 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 diffexclusive 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

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...

As far as pumping is concerned, I did pump on and off with my first until I kind of got frustrated with it, and I do have some experience in exclusive pumping with my twins for the first two months because they were preemies, there were born at 35 weeks, and they couldn't latch at the time, so I had about two months of exclusive pumping before we went to breast - feeding.

It has been shown that formula supplementation in the early postnatal period reduces the likelihood of subsequent exclusive breast feeding and overall duration of breast feeding.

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].

There's a wealth of widely accepted research to back up the WHO's support of exclusive breast - feeding.

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.

For how long is exclusive breast - feeding adequate to satisfy the dietary energy needs of the average young baby?

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).

The World Health Organisation1 and UK government recommend exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of life.

In summary, although the overall effect of breast - feeding on allergic disease remains unknown, most practitioners agree that exclusive breast - feeding is the preferred method of nutrition for all infants based on other potential benefits of breast - feeding.

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.

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.»

Several years prior to this, Gdalevich et al (29) performed a meta - analysis of prospective studies between January 1966 and May 2000 on the association between exclusive breast - feeding in the first 3 months after birth and the onset of atopic dermatitis in childhood and concluded that breast - feeding was protective against incident atopic dermatitis in childhood.

Exclusive breast feeding (excluding all other foods) of infants for the first four to six months of life, if possible, is recommended for its beneficial effects.

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..

I'm hoping that continuing to take my supplements and starting domperidone will take me to exclusive levels of production, but all I know is that I haven't received shade from formula feeders but I have received it from breastfeeders, and that makes me sad because I unapologetically nurse our son uncovered, remind everyone that boobs were made for feeding so they can deal with breastfeeding in public, feel that breastmilk is truly the best for babies and have an extremely hard time with the fact that I can't feed him just breast.

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/).

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).

Most experts agree that breast - feeding is the most effective and appropriate feeding method for infants, and that exclusive breast - feeding is effective in minimizing risk for development of allergic disease.

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.

Ludvigsson et al (32) examined 8300 infants and demonstrated that the duration of exclusive breast - feeding was not associated with a lower risk of atopic dermatitis, even among infants with a family history of atopy.

However, additional studies are needed that directly compare prolonged use of these formulas with exclusive breast - feeding.