Sentences with phrase «reduced duration of breastfeeding»

Additional reasons for deciding not to breastfeed can include concern about the quality and quantity of breast milk, and partner and family support, which are common across developed and developing countries.10, 11 Women who decide not to breastfeed are also more likely to have smoked during their pregnancy, be primiparous mothers (i.e., having their first child), and to have a child born low birth weight or with complex health issues such as cystic fibrosis.9, 12 Prenatal and post-natal stressful experiences may also reduce the duration of breastfeeding.13 Finally, several studies suggest that mother's who return to work within the first 6 months postpartum or anticipate an early return to full - time employment, are less likely to breastfeed.

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Longer duration of breastfeeding may or may not affect the appearance of your breasts, but it will reduce the risk for breast cancer over your lifetime, in addition to the many other health benefits to you and to your breastfed baby.

«In the subgroup of women with spontaneous onset of labour and vaginal deliveries, after controlling for other obstetric and demographic factors, epidural analgesia but not narcotic analgesia was significantly associated with reduced breastfeeding duration (adjusted hazard ratio 1.44, 95 % confidence interval 1.04 - 1.99).»

The Lullaby Trust's Lucy Lyus, Research and Information Manager said in response to the study: «We recommend that women breastfeed their babies, if they can, as breastfeeding for any duration, whether exclusive or in combination with formula feeding, has been found to reduce the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Longer breastfeeding duration is further associated with reduced maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and heart attack.»

It is estimated that the cumulative incidence of breast cancer in developed countries would be reduced by more than half, from 6.3 to 2.7 per 100 women by age 70, if women had the average number of births and lifetime duration of breastfeeding that had been prevalent in developing countries until recently.

A longer duration of breastfeeding — for example more than 12 months (and this can be over several babies) is more protective, even if you are breastfeeding at all and whether you are mixed feeding with some breast milk and some formula, your breast cancer risks are reduced.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

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.

A more recent examination of nonhuman protein enrichment of mother's milk found more severe illnesses and a reduced duration of «full» breastfeeding while a greater duration of full breastfeeding was associated with better growth scores.

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.

Many of the observational studies indicate that pacifier use, at any stage of lactation, is associated with reduced breastfeeding exclusivity or duration.

Breastfeeding consistently reduced behavioural responses of cry duration and composite pain scores during and following vaccinations.

Distribution of formula marketing packs reduces breastfeeding initiation and duration (16) and implies that formula is a recommended feeding method.

Conversely, many researchers have observed a greater risk of overweight in children and adolescents who had not been breastfed compared with those who had16, 17 or who were breastfed a shorter rather than longer duration.18 — 25 On the basis of a review of 11 studies, Dewey26 concluded that «the evidence to date suggests that breastfeeding reduces the risk of child overweight to a moderate extent.»

@Just wondering: There are quite a few papers suggesting that a longer duration of breastfeeding can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

I do, however, think that the duration of their colds are reduced when breastfeeding.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

A significantly reduced risk of breast cancer was also found for those whose lifetime duration of lactation totaled 73 - 108 months (odds ratio = 0.47, 95 % CI: 0.23, 0.95) and for those who breastfed for > or = 109 months (odds ratio = 0.24, 95 % CI: 0.11, 0.53).

As a consequence of this research the past two decades (1989 - 2009) have witnessed a) a renewed recognition of the importance of contact and touch for babies in the context of improving breastfeeding initiation and duration [17]; b) an increased awareness of the role that close parental proximity and monitoring of babies plays in reducing SIDS and neglect [18][19]; and c) the impact of early mother - infant separation on long - term mental health [20]-- all leading to a resurgence of interest in parent - infant contact, particularly sleep contact.

The study revealed a significant association between duration of breastfeeding and reduced risk of diabetes, even after all other possible risk factors were accounted for.