An infant during the first 4 – 6 months of life should optimally be exclusively breastfed, according to the World Health Organization recommendation of 1979. We describe gender, race, age of children and their mother’s educational status associated with under-three year old children’s being breastfed for any length of time in the United States of America. Using data from the National Survey of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the intergenerational repetition of breastfeeding duration in a cohort of adolescent mothers who had been prospectively followed up since birth. METHODS All hospital births occurred in Pelotas (N=5,914), a Southern Brazilian city, in 1982 were studied prospectively. The cohort was visited in 1984 and 1986, and information on feeding practices was gathered. In 2001, a searc...

Cross-sectional data for breastfed infants in rural Zambia were used to evaluate the effect of applying two different data sets as a reference, i.e. the WHO 12-month breastfed pooled data set and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth reference in terms of prevalence of malnutrition (stunting, underweight, and wasting). A total of 518 infants who were attending mother-and-child...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportions of US infants who were breastfed exclusively for 6 months, according to characteristics of the mother, child, and household environment, and to compare associations between those characteristics and exclusive breastfeeding with associations between those characteristics and breastfeeding initiation. METHODS Data were obtained from the 2007 National Surve...

The faecal microbiota composition of infants born to mothers receiving intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis with ampicillin against group B Streptococcus was compared with that of control infants, at day 7 and 30 of life. Recruited newborns were both exclusive breastfed and mixed fed, in order to also study the effect of dietary factors on the microbiota composition. Massive parallel sequencing o...

introduction: there are many advantages in breastfeeding of infants. the impact of fasting of breastfeeding mothers during ramadan, on their exclusively breastfed infants’ growth, is still unclear. the objective of this study is to determine the impact of maternal ramadan fasting on growth parameters of exclusively breastfed infants. methods: this cohort study was conducted on 55 healthy, exclu...

Breastfeeding is associated with many health benefits to the mother but the association between osteoarthritis (OA) is not known. Menopause, a state of rapid estrogen loss, is associated with OA. To test whether lactation, another physiological state of low estrogen status, is associated with OA, a nationally representative dataset National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-...