Daily skin-to-skin contact in full-term infants and breastfeeding: secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial
Cooijmans KHM, Beijers R, Brett BE, de Weerth C.Matern Child [...]
What is the percentage of Australian babies exclusively breastfed to 6 months?
Susan Tawia, BSc PhD Dip Breastfeeding Mgmt Cert IV Breastfeeding [...]
Exclusive breastfeeding as a protective factor of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Saravia-Bartra MM, Cazorla P, Ignacio-Cconchoy FL, Cazorla-Saravia P.Andes Pediatr. 2021 [...]
Breastfeeding practice, breastfeeding policy and hospitalisations for infectious diseases in early and later childhood: a register-based study in Uppsala County, Sweden
Videholm S, Wallby T, Silfverdal SA.BMJ Open. 2021 May 31;11(5):e046583. [...]
Misalignment of global COVID-19 breastfeeding and newborn care guidelines with World Health Organization recommendations
Vu Hoang D, Cashin J, Gribble K, Marinelli K, Mathisen [...]
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Milk From COVID-19 Positive Mothers and Follow-Up of Their Infants.
Bertino E, Moro GE, De Renzi G, Viberti G, Cavallo [...]
In-Hospital Formula Feeding and Breastfeeding Duration.
McCoy MB, Heggie P.Pediatrics. 2020 Jul;146(1):e20192946. doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-2946. Epub [...]
Vitamin B12 deficiency as a cause of severe neurological symptoms in breast fed infant – a case report.
Infants are particularly vulnerable to vitamin B12 deficiency because of their rapid growth, and exclusively breastfed infants of deficient mothers will show signs before any maternal symptoms are apparent.
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 3 months of life may reduce the risk of respiratory allergies and some asthma in children at the age of 6 years.
The author of this paper used data from the USA Infant Feeding Practices Study II to investigate the associations between infant feeding, asthma, and respiratory allergies.
Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: A 12-country study.
Many factors contribute to the development of obesity and studies have differed on whether they find infant feeding has a significant effect.
