breastfeeding

Examples of breastfeed

breastfeed
To avoid spurious associations and to identify reverse causality, longitudinal studies are necessary to establish the chronology of cessation of breastfeeding to growth faltering.
Some workplaces made provision for women to breastfeed their infants in the mid-day break if the child was left nearby.
It is these factors and not prolonged breastfeeding per se, which account for the association with malnutrition and diarrhoeal disease.
Alternatively, it is possible that continued breastfeeding, operating through some hormonal mechanism, reduces the child's appetite and acceptance of other, more energy dense foods.
In the present study an important predictor was guidance on breastfeeding from public health nurses.
Also, reduced periods of breastfeeding associated with high fertility rates could affect mortality.
The protection afforded by breastfeeding seems to have been fundamental in the case of children under one year of age.
In the logistic regression analysis, only breastfeeding status was a significant factor for oropharyngeal colonization.
Whether they were in employment or not, there was an additional reason for women having difficulty in breastfeeding during the war years.
In contrast, when complementary feeding practices, sanitation and health are good, a negative association between breastfeeding and growth (and/or illness) is not observed.
At 32 weeks, the patient asked for counselling regarding the possibility to breastfeed.
Nurses attended to health maintenance and risk reduction, such as managing breastfeeding problems and stressing the importance of immunization against vaccine preventable disease.
Interventions to reduce vertical transmission include avoidance of breastfeeding where safe and affordable alternatives exist and antiretroviral therapy with zidovudine during pregnancy, labour and to the neonate.
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