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.
USBC — Implementing The Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measure
on Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding
Not exact matches
Article 128 of the 2009 law
on health stipulates that babies have the right to six months of
exclusive breast milk unless their mothers could not fulfill their obligation due to medical problems.
I still remember reading a handout upon Flo's discharge from hospital with the line «
Breast Milk Should Be the
Exclusive Food For the Baby for the First Six Months,» I also remember posters
on the maternity unit «
Breast is Best.»
She referenced Kellymom.com who says «
exclusive breastfeeding (by itself) is 98 - 99.5 % effective in preventing pregnancy if 1) your baby is less than 6 months old 2) your period hasn't returned 3) baby is breastfeeding
on cue (both day & night), and gets nothing but
breast milk or only token amounts of other foods.»
Based
on those reports, we created two outcomes: discontinuation of
exclusive breastfeeding (i.e. introducing any foods other than
breast milk) before 3 months and discontinuation of breastfeeding to any degree (weaning) before 12 months.
Discussions vary each week depending
on questions, commonly touching
on increasing
milk supply, managing oversupply, nipple shields, pumping, returning to work,
exclusive pumping, introducing a bottle, bottle refusal,
breast / nipple soreness, introducing solids, teething, and infant behaviors at the
breast.
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.
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...
If children raised
on perfect food without their mother's presence is not your idea of a utopia, I suggest we all stop focusing so much
on the wonders of
breast milk and look more closely at the issues involved in
exclusive breastfeeding and in mother - infant proximity.
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.
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.
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..
Meanwhile, Rachel is thriving
on her
exclusive breast -
milk diet, just as I had always intended.
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
Even when hungry, he will even nurse for a long time
on empty
breasts which has been a good thing to help increase my
milk supply (increased yes, but still not adequate for 100 %
exclusive breastfeeding).
If children raised
on perfect food without their mother's presence is not your idea of a utopia, I suggest we all stop focusing so much
on the biochemical wonders of
breast milk and look more closely at the issues involved in
exclusive breastfeeding and in mother - infant proximity.
Breastfeeding was categorised
on a 7 - point scale from 7 =
exclusive breastfeeding (which was defined as no other
milk or food, but infants may have received water and other liquids) through to
exclusive formula, between these extremes of the scale there were various «intensities» of breastfeeding (e.g. > 50 %
breast milk).
Exclusive breastfeeding — defined as the practice of only giving an infant
breast -
milk for the first 6 months of life (no other food or water)-- has the single largest potential impact
on child mortality of any preventive intervention.
To achieve the Comprehensive Implementation Plan
on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition's target
on exclusive breastfeeding, it is important to strengthen the adoption, monitoring and enforcement of national legislation in full compliance with the International Code of Marketing of
Breast -
milk Substitutes and all relevant subsequent World Health Assembly Resolutions (Code).