PURPOSE To describe the breastfeeding initial conditions for premature infants. METHODS The sample consisted on 26 mother/baby dyads. The babies had an average of 36.1 weeks corrected gestational age and were hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Southern Brazil. Data was collected from medical records, and the observation of the dyads was conducted during feeding, using the Obser...

Ericson, J. 2018. Breastfeeding in mothers of preterm infants. Prevalence and effects of support. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1398. 69 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0161-7. The overall aim of this thesis was to describe the prevalence of breastfeeding in preterm infants and to evaluate the effectiveness and...

BACKGROUND Appropriate breastfeeding and infant feeding practices are crucial to a child's growth and development. The objective of this paper is to describe breastfeeding and general feeding practices and the nutrition status among children from birth to 6 months of age, in the Saharawi refugee camps located in Algeria. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out among 111 lactating moth...

BACKGROUND The promotion and maintenance of breastfeeding with late preterm infants (LPIs) remain under examined topics of study. This dearth of research knowledge, especially for this population at-risk for various health complications, requires scientific investigation. In this study, we explore the experiences of mothers and the perceptions of public health nurses (PHNs) about breastfeeding ...

I I M T his is a review of the immunologic activities and protective benefits of human breast milk against infection. It details important concepts bout the developing immunity of infants, bioactive actors and antiinflammatory properties of breast milk, ntestinal microflora in infants, probiotics and prebiotcs, and the dynamic interactive effects of breast milk n the developing infant. Studies ...

OBJECTIVES Recent reports have highlighted the benefits of surgical division of tongue-tie (frenulotomy) in infants with breastfeeding difficulties. There is no clear consensus defining the appropriate age for this procedure to be undertaken in selected infants. We aimed to evaluate the impact of delays in time between referral and frenulotomy in relation to maternal abandonment of breastfeedin...

OBJECTIVES To describe breastfeeding practices and investigate the influence of exclusive breastfeeding in early infancy on the risk of infant deaths, especially those attributable to respiratory infections (ARI) and diarrhea. METHODS A prospective observational study was conducted on a birth cohort of 1677 infants who were born in slum areas of Dhaka in Bangladesh and followed from birth to ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of breastfeeding education provided to fathers on breastfeeding rates and paternal-infant attachment. METHODS 117 couples with their infants with the inclusion criteria: knowledge of reading, writing and speaking Turkish; living in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus until their infants were six months old; and infants having no health problems preventing th...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND To investigate and examine the factors associated with initiation of, and exclusive breastfeeding at hospital discharge of, late preterm (34 0/7 - 36 6/7 weeks) compared to 37 week gestation (37 0/7 - 37 6/7 week) mother and baby pairs. METHODS A retrospective population-based cohort study using a Perinatal National Minimum Data Set and clinical medical records review...