Journal article
Factors related to early termination of breast-feeding in an urban population
Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.78(2), pp.210-215
08/1986
DOI: 10.1542/peds.78.2.210
PMID: 3737298
Abstract
A prospective study of breast-feeding mothers was undertaken to determine the effect of formula samples and other hospital-related factors on success in breast-feeding. Of the 166 nursing mothers studied for 4 months postpartum, 83% breast-fed for 1 month, 73% for 10 weeks, and 58% for 4 months or longer. Breast-feeding duration was not affected by formula samples given at discharge from the hospital. Factors correlating significantly with improved breast-feeding rates include maternal age, maternal education, nonsmoking, previous breast-feeding, planned pregnancy, initiation of breast-feeding in the first 16 hours, and minimization of formula supplementation in the nursery. Partial breast-feeding (supplementing more than one bottle of formula per day, measured at 1 month postpartum) was associated with shorter breast-feeding duration. This latter effect was minimized by frequent nursing (seven or more times per day), despite formula supplementation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Factors related to early termination of breast-feeding in an urban population
- Creators
- Joel M FeinsteinJ E BerkelhamerM E GruszkaCynthia A WongA E Carey
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.78(2), pp.210-215
- DOI
- 10.1542/peds.78.2.210
- PMID
- 3737298
- NLM abbreviation
- Pediatrics
- ISSN
- 0031-4005
- eISSN
- 1098-4275
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics; United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/1986
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984006424902771
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