BACKGROUND The WHO recommends exclusive breast-feeding for babies up to 6 months of age. The association between maternal mental health and breast-feeding duration is contradictory. This is a case-control study to investigate this association. METHODS 153 families with 4-month-old babies from an urban area in southern Brazil were investigated: in 51 families, breast-feeding had being disconti...

OBJECTIVE Exclusive breast-feeding is estimated to reduce infant mortality in low-income countries by up to 13 %. The aim of the present study was to determine the risk factors associated with suboptimal breast-feeding practices in Pakistan. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using data extracted from the multistage cluster sample survey of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-2007. ...

study of administrative obstacles of breastfeeding in infants   born from employed mothers in schools and   hygienoremedial centers of urmia city, 2004     dr. ahmadneghad, e m.d and dr. karamiyar, m     abstract     introduction: breast milk is the most complete food for infants during the first six months of their life. unfortunately, in the recent decades, they are deprived from this divine ...

Recently, there has been increasing concern about the decline in breast-feeding pattern in developing countries. The objectives of this study were to document the recent breast-feeding trends in Jeddah during the first year of an infant's life and identify the probable maternal risk factors implicated in breast-feeding cessation. Data were collected from six randomly selected primary health car...

OBJECTIVE This survey was conducted to identify factors affecting early initiation of breast-feeding and exclusive breast-feeding among mothers in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala. MATERIALS AND METHODS In early November 1999 a census was begun in four communities of peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala, to identify all children < 6 months old as well as all pregnant women who were expect...

I n this issue of PLoS Medicine, Renaud Becquet and colleagues report their fi ndings from a new study looking at the long-term safety of infant feeding interventions aimed at reducing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Africa [1]. Over two years, the researchers studied the safety of infant feeding interventions (either formula feeding or shortened breast-feeding) among infants of HIV-infecte...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of implementing a dedicated feeding support team on a postnatal ward and pilot the potential effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of team (proactive) and woman-initiated (reactive) telephone support after discharge. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial embedded within a before-and-after study. Participatory approach and mixed-method process evaluation. SETT...

Background: Mothers’ empowerment in breast-feeding is a key motivational and psychological factor for continuous breast-feeding. Therefore, this study was designed to examine the effects of family-centered educational-supportive program on mothers’ empowerment in breastfeeding. Materials and Methods: In this random clinical trial, pregnant women who met inclusion criteria were gradually select...

Background This paper summarises EVective Health Care, volume 6, number 2, which is based on a systematic review to evaluate the eVectiveness of interventions to promote the initiation of breast feeding. Breast feeding is a key public health issue. Health benefits associated with breast feeding include protection against gastroenteritis, respiratory infection, otitis media, urinary tract infect...

BACKGROUND The effect of breast-feeding on the development of allergic disease is uncertain. There are no data that show whether this relationship varies by individual genotypes. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the effect of breast-feeding and gene-breast-feeding interactions on food sensitization (FS) in a prospective US birth cohort. METHODS This study included 970 children who were prosp...