The Breastfeeding-Friendly Pediatric Office Practice.

Evaluation of an office protocol to increase exclusivity of breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether implementing a program based on a clinical protocol affects breastfeeding rates within a pediatric primary care setting. Increasing breastfeeding rates is an important public health initiative identified by multiple agencies. METHODS The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) clinical protocol ("The Breastfeeding-Friendly Physician...

Incorporating breastfeeding care into daily newborn rounds and pediatric office practice.

Integrating breastfeeding care into pediatric practice and thought process results in improved breastfeeding outcomes for patients and significant professional satisfaction for pediatricians. Meeting a family's expectation to help them succeed in their desire to breastfeed their infants is rewarding. Current knowledge regarding the appropriate care of the breastfed infant immediately after birt...

ABM clinical protocol #14: breastfeeding-friendly physician's office, part 1: optimizing care for infants and children.

The effects of office-based frenotomy for anterior and posterior ankyloglossia on breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to assess the effect of office-based frenotomy on reversing breastfeeding difficulties among infants with problematic ankyloglossia, and to examine characteristics associated with anterior and posterior ankyloglossia. METHODS Mother's of infants who underwent a frenotomy for ankyloglossia from December 2006 through March 2011 completed a post-inter...

Breastfeeding-Friendly Primary Care Unit Initiative and the relationship with exclusive breastfeeding

OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding and the association with the Breastfeeding-Friendly Primary Care Unit Initiative. METHODS Cross-sectional study, whose data source were research on feeding behaviors in the first year of life conducted in the vaccination campaigns of 2003 and 2006, at the municipality of Barra Mansa, RJ, Southeastern Brazil. For the purposes of th...