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Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, Auteur ; Kimarie Bugg, Auteur ; Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist, Auteur |Background: Breastfeeding is protective of maternal and infant health across the life course. Increasing breastfeeding rates in Black communities is an important public health strategy to address maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. M[...]Article : texte imprimé
Vijaya K. Hogan, Auteur ; Diane L. Rowley, Auteur ; Pauline E. Brooks, Auteur |Background: Equity in breastfeeding could reduce excess morbidity and mortality among children and mothers of color. Few programs that support breastfeeding have been evaluated for their capacity to create equity. The aim of this study was to as[...]Article : texte imprimé
Background: Although breastfeeding is optimal infant nutrition, disparities in breastfeeding persist in the African American population. AMEN (Avondale Moms Empowered to Nurse) launched a Peer-to-Peer support group to increase breastfeeding init[...]Article : texte imprimé
Mary M. Muse, Auteur ; Jerome E. Morris, Auteur ; Joan E Dodgson, Auteur |Background Many individuals comprise a nursing mothers social support network. Grandmothers within African American families, historically, have played a vital role in the transmission of culture. Understanding intergenerational perspectives w[...]Article : texte imprimé
Purpose: To test the feasibility and possible effects of two iPad®-based breastfeeding interventions for expectant minority women and evaluate (1) the intervention effect on exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) intention, (2) intervention acceptability[...]Article : texte imprimé
Zelalem T. Haile, Auteur ; Bhakti Bhaoo Chavan, Auteur ; Asli K. Teweldeberhan, Auteur |Background: In the United States, a high percentage of pregnant women gain weight outside of the current Institute of Medicine's (IOM) gestational weight gain (GWG) recommendations. There is limited research examining the relationship between GW[...]Article : texte imprimé
Dinah Chen, Auteur ; Elena Fuell Wysong, Auteur ; Hong Li, Auteur |Objective: The primary aim of this study was to examine the association between postpartum predischarge depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (ppDMPA) and in-hospital breastfeeding initiation, and the secondary exploratory aim was to determine if an[...]Article : texte imprimé
Natasha A. Johnson, Auteur ; Elena Fuell Wysong, Auteur ; Krystel Tossone, Auteur |Purpose: We sought to understand how women's prenatal infant feeding and contraception intentions were related to postpartum choices. Materials and Methods: Expectant women ≥14 years of age receiving care at MacDonald Women's Hospital, [...]Article : texte imprimé
Julie L. Ware, Auteur ; Larita Webb, Auteur ; Marian Levy, Auteur |Breastfeeding is recommended exclusively for the first 6 months of life, with continuation after the addition of complementary foods for at least 1 year of life. Breastfeeding rates are low in the Southeastern United States, especially among Afr[...]Article : texte imprimé
Erin Fleurant, Auteur ; Michael Schoeny, Auteur ; Rebecca Hoban, Auteur |Background: While black mothers initiate human milk (HM) provision at lower rates than non-black mothers in the United States, some neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) report similar initiation rates regardless of race/ethnicity for mothers of[...]Article : texte imprimé
Brittany Riley, Auteur ; Michael Schoeny, Auteur ; Laura Rogers, Auteur |Background: Although 98% of mothers in our cohort initiated human milk (HM) provision for their very lowbirthweight (VLBW) infants, fewer black infants received HM at neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge than non-black infants. This st[...]Article : texte imprimé
Background: Disparities in breastfeeding (BF) continue to be a public health challenge, as currently only 42% of infants in the world and 25.6% of infants in the United States are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life. In 2019, th[...]Article : texte imprimé
ME Bentley, Auteur ; DL Dee, Auteur ; JL Jensen, Auteur |Breastfeeding rates among African-American women lag behind all other ethnic groups. National data show that only 45% of African-American women reported ever breastfeeding compared to 66 and 68% of Hispanic and white women, respectively. Of Afri[...]Article : texte imprimé
The role fathers play in the lives of their children is, as any behavior, dependent on their knowledge of factors influencing the health and safety of children and the societal context in which those fathers live, work, and worship. In the conte[...]Article : texte imprimé
Ardythe L. Morrow, Auteur ; Janelle McClain, Auteur ; Shannon C. Conrey, Auteur |Background: Black mothers in the United States have shorter breastfeeding (BF) durations and less exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) than others. The factors underlying these disparities require investigation. Methods: Using longitudinal data from[...]Article : texte imprimé
Breastfeeding Exposure, Attitudes, and Intentions of African American and Caucasian College Students
Background: African American mothers lag behind in breastfeeding initiation. Research is needed to gain an understanding of potential reasons for breastfeeding disparities. Research aim: This study explored breastfeeding exposure, attitudes[...]Article : texte imprimé
Harumi Reis-Reilly, Auteur ; Nikia Fuller-Sankofa, Auteur ; Calondra Tibbs, Auteur |To improve equity in breastfeeding rates and eliminate breastfeeding disparities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in 2014 funded the National Association of County and City He[...]Article : texte imprimé
RO Meyerink, Auteur ; GS Marquis, Auteur |To gain perspective on breastfeeding initiation and duration among poor women in the south-eastern United States, the authors interviewed a random sample of 150 mothers (93% African American) at a county health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. For[...]Article : texte imprimé
Breastfeeding Medicine is thus honored to be dedicating this special issue, as part of Black History month, to focus on this continuing scar of the U.S. society in general and its health care system in particular. Guest edited by Dr. Sahira Long[...]Article : texte imprimé
Substantial racial disparities accounted for 66% of non-Hispanic Black mothers initiating breastfeeding in 2015 compared with 83% of non-Hispanic white mothers and 87% of Hispanic mothers in Tennessee. Created in 2015, Breastfeeding Sisters That[...]Article : texte imprimé
Simonne S. Nouer, Auteur ; Julie L. Ware, Auteur ; Katherine M. Baldwin, Auteur |Background: The Southern United States has low breastfeeding rates, particularly among African Americans. Breastfeeding rates are influenced by community attitudes and norms. Objective: This study aimed to examine changes in breastfeeding a[...]Article : texte imprimé
Gail C. Christopher, Auteur ; Joanne K. Krell, Auteur |We've seen the headlines in the media: The Mommy Wars, A Woman's Right to Choose (Not to Breastfeed), and The Case Against Breastfeeding, among others. These headlines are focused on the individual mother and the notion of choice, pitting [...]Article : texte imprimé
Doris Browne, Auteur |For the first time in our history, the United States is raising a generation of children who may have sicker, shorter lives than their parents.1 Therefore, we must act now to reverse this trend. The health of a nation is gauged by its infant [...]Article : texte imprimé
How can we encourage breastfeeding among our most vulnerable mothers and infants? Breastfeeding advocates have struggled with this question for decades. This issue of Breastfeeding Medicine contains three important articles that examine the issu[...]Article : texte imprimé
Alison M. Stuebe, Auteur ; Karen Bonuck, Auteur ; Reuben Adatorwovor, Auteur |Background: Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and their infants are at increased risk of developing metabolic disease; however, longer breastfeeding is associated with a reduction in these risks. We tested an intervention to increas[...]