Pediatricians Advocating Breastfeeding: Let's Start with Supporting our Fellow Pediatricians First

Pediatricians' practices and attitudes regarding breastfeeding promotion.

OBJECTIVE Public awareness of the benefits of breastfeeding is expected to increase during and after the national, federally funded Best Start Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign. It is anticipated that this will result in more breastfeeding-based interactions between families and pediatricians. The American Academy of Pediatrics conducted a survey of its members to identify their educational need...

[Promotion of breastfeeding: the importance of pediatricians with specific training].

OBJECTIVE To study the factors involved in the maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding in healthy infants during the first 4 months of life, with emphasis on the role of pediatricians. MATERIAL AND METHODS A longitudinal study was carried out with 101 healthy term babies at a pediatrics outpatient clinic in Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The babies were divided at random into three gr...

Pediatricians for Animals: That Important First Visit

The trouble with pediatricians.

Rarely, as far as I can discern, do the pediatric departments of the six medical schools in Chicago come together to address an issue in health care. There are certainly many issues available: pediatric AIDS, infant mortality, prematurity, access to care, health care finances, funding pediatric education, and probably others. But the Chicago area pediatric department chairmen have come together...

Pediatricians and the promotion and support of breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVES To survey pediatricians on their breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, and practices and to compare these results with those of a 1995 study. DESIGN Cross-sectional follow-up survey. SETTING The Periodic Survey of Fellows survey conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics. PARTICIPANTS The survey was completed by 875 pediatrician members of the American Academy of Pediatrics ...