Early Termination of Breastfeeding

On the Relationship between Social Support and Early Breastfeeding Termination

Background: There is no substitute to mother breastfeeding; on the one hand, mothers need all-out support, especially in the first days after delivery, which is one of the effective factors for women’s success in breastfeeding. Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social support and early termination of breastfeeding. Methods: This retrospective study e...

Reason for termination of breastfeeding and the length of breastfeeding.

BACKGROUND In third world countries the length of breastfeeding often has a major influence on child mortality, morbidity and nutritional status. When evaluating the impact of length of breastfeeding the reason why a mother terminates breastfeeding is usually not taken into consideration. METHODS Risk factors for termination of breastfeeding were studied in a prospective community study follo...

Optimal regulatory control of early contract termination

Is breastfeeding really favoring early neonatal jaundice?

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the development of significant hyperbilirubinemia in a large unselected newborn population in a metropolitan area with particular attention to the relationship between type of feeding and incidence of neonatal jaundice in the first week of life. STUDY DESIGN A population of 2174 infants with gestational age >/=37 weeks was prospectively inve...

Adding faster with application specific early termination

This paper presents a methodology for improving the speed of high-speed adders. As a starting point, a previously proposed method, called "speculative completion," is used in which fast-terminating additions are automatically detected. Unlike the previous design, the method proposed in this paper is able to adapt dynamically to (1) application-specific behavior and (2) to adder-specific behavio...