Sentences with phrase «report exclusive breastfeeding rates»

USA Today reported that only 23 countries report exclusive breastfeeding rates at six months above 60 %.

The reported exclusive breastfeeding rate may be higher than the national average as the sample consisted of women with established intension to breastfeed exclusively.

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That is a limitation, but the CDC Report Card does report the rates in the following categories: (1) Ever Breastfed, (2) Breastfeeding at 6 mos, (3) Breastfeeding at 12 mos, (4) Exclusive Breastfeeding at 3 mos and (5) Exclusive Breastfeeding at Report Card does report the rates in the following categories: (1) Ever Breastfed, (2) Breastfeeding at 6 mos, (3) Breastfeeding at 12 mos, (4) Exclusive Breastfeeding at 3 mos and (5) Exclusive Breastfeeding at report the rates in the following categories: (1) Ever Breastfed, (2) Breastfeeding at 6 mos, (3) Breastfeeding at 12 mos, (4) Exclusive Breastfeeding at 3 mos and (5) Exclusive Breastfeeding at 6 mos.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Two studies reported «breastfeeding» rates, but did not specify whether this was any or exclusive; Serwint 1996 reported rates at 30 and 60 days, while Winterburn 2003 reported initiation at birth, and duration at 10 days, one month, six weeks, three months and six months.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

The highest exclusive breastfeeding rates are reported in eastern and southern regions in Africa (51 %)[9].

The report card gives the average exclusive breastfeeding rate for babies between 0 and 5 months, which is 17 %.

Most studies (29/52) reported the effect of the intervention on rates of both any and exclusive breastfeeding.

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: data from an inner - city Cleveland clinic with a similar population reported lower rates with any and exclusive breastfeeding at 5 days at 40.8 % and 22.0 %, respectively.

National baseline prevalence reported in paper was similar to the control group rates; UNICEF quoted higher rates - 53 % exclusive breastfeeding at 0 - 3 months

However, rates of exclusive breastfeeding for children younger than six months vary widely; Peru and Rwanda report rates of 72 % and 85 % respectively (UNICEF 2012), while in Nigeria the rate is only 17 %.