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Breastfeeding Promotion in Early Learning Settings
Published in Mary Nolan, Shona Gore, Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education, 2023
Elizabeth Smith, Sarah Edwards, Amy Bryson
Midwifery and health visiting teams are tasked with encouraging mothers to breastfeed and to provide or to signpost to local services for advice and support to enable mothers to continue breastfeeding. Yet, there is evidence that some professionals feel they have little influence on mothers’ choice of feeding method; they also report anxiety around the tension between breastfeeding promotion and coercion and about making mothers who formula feed feel guilty (Marks & O’Connor, 2015).
Lifestyle Therapies for the Management of Diabetes
Published in James M. Rippe, Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
B reastfeeding is strongly recommended for all women, including those with diabetes. Breastfeeding promotion by HCP is needed to increase the important role of breastfeeding in improving health and reducing health care costs.38 Women with GDM should be tested for persistent diabetes or prediabetes at 4–12 weeks postpartum with a 75-g OGTT using non-pregnancy criteria (Table 30.1). They should also be tested every 1–3 years thereafter if the 4–12 week 75-g OGTT is normal, with frequency depending on other risk factors.8 Women with a history of GDM have a greatly increased risk of conversion to T2D over time. Both intensive lifestyle and metformin interventions can prevent or delay progression to diabetes in women with prediabetes and a history of GDM.4
Putting breastfeeding into context
Published in Maria Pollard, Evidence-based Care for Breastfeeding Mothers, 2018
Statistics provide healthcare professionals with important information about the characteristics of those who choose to breastfeed and for how long. This information enables the development of breastfeeding promotion programmes, policies and guidelines at national and local levels. On an individual level they also provide healthcare practitioners with an understanding of the reasons women make the choices they do. Dungy et al. (2008) suggest that knowledge and attitude can predict infant feeding intention and tools such as the Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IFAS) could be used to develop and evaluate programmes aimed at promoting breastfeeding. The Infant Feeding Survey was previously conducted every five years to provide estimates on incidence, prevalence and duration of breastfeeding, however, the 2015 survey was cancelled and has been discontinued following a decision by the Department of Health and health departments in Northern Ireland and Wales. Alternative sources of information can be found at:
Breastfeeding History, Preschool Children’s Sleep, and Obesity
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2022
Angel Herring, Jerome Kolbo, Hwanseok Choi, Xiaoshan Z. Gordy, Bonnie Harbaugh, Elaine Molaison, Lindsey Hardin, Olivia Ismail
In order to promote breastfeeding, providing access to breastfeeding support to new mothers is of vital importance, as to whether such support exists directly affects their decision to breastfeed (World Health Organization, 2003). Nurse-led breastfeeding support, specifically, is considered an effective breastfeeding promotion strategy, as it ultimately leads to increased quality of life by sharing the benefits, techniques, and health implications of breastfeeding (Frick et al., 2005). Nurses are considered to have a “privileged vantage point” over pediatricians and lactation consultants in seeing the full picture of the physical and mental postpartum experience, as they support new mothers in their initial experiences with breastfeeding and serve as a resource in breastfeeding behaviors (Frick et al., 2005; Nelson, 2007, p. 34).
Risk Language and Infant Feeding Behaviors: A Longitudinal Analysis
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2021
Lora Ebert Wallace, Erin N. Taylor
The impetus for our research is that these “risk” strategy promotions should not be undertaken without evidence that they are efficacious (i.e., they result in more breastfeeding) and that they create no unjustified harm. To date, only very limited research that evaluates the effectiveness of the risk-promotion strategies in increasing breastfeeding is available (Taylor & Wallace, 2012, 2017; Wallace & Taylor, 2011, 2016). Some recent research has explored what recipients think about breastfeeding promotion and education. For example, Brown (2016) asked about UK mothers’ views of breastfeeding education and information and found that women expressed a desire to end the “breastfeeding is best” message in favor of a more expansive and inclusive “breastfeeding is normal” message. They also suggested that breastfeeding education be targeted to family members and others, rather than just to mothers (see Furman et al., 2016, and Mahesh et al., 2018, for more on breastfeeding promotion to fathers). Our previous research (Wallace & Taylor, 2011, 2016) suggests that risk promotion does not work better than traditional “benefits of breastfeeding” promotion in changing attitudes and intentions to breastfeed. In this follow-up study, we describe the latest (and most complete) results that include breastfeeding behaviors and an examination of the possible differences in women’s breastfeeding behaviors following exposure to risk versus benefits language promotion.
A case study on breastfeeding education in Lebanon’s public medical school: exploring the potential role of social networks in medical education
Published in Medical Education Online, 2018
Sara Moukarzel, Christoforos Mamas, Melissa F. Warstadt, Lars Bode, Antoine Farhat, Antoine Abi Abboud, Alan J Daly
In our own work over the last 1.5 years, we have been using this systematic approach to understand and address potential supports and constraints of breastfeeding promotion and support in a group of medical interns and residents in a large-scale research project. In this paper, we report findings from the first pilot phase of our formative research which includes assessment of knowledge, beliefs, and self-efficacy related to breastfeeding promotion and support. We also describe the social network of the Lebanese cohort around breastfeeding knowledge exchange.