Impact of a breastfeeding-friendly workplace on an employed mother's intention to continue breastfeeding after returning to work

SY Tsai - Breastfeeding Medicine, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Background: Ever-increasing populations of women in their childbearing years are choosing
to become employed. Breastfeeding provides unique health advantages to both the infant …

Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?

ED Bono, C Pronzato - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to
reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding …

Breastfeeding practices among employed Thai women in Chiang Mai

S Yimyam, M Morrow - Journal of Human Lactation, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
In many developing countries, labor force participation by women in the childbearing years
has increased rapidly. Social and economic changes present new challenges for women …

Breastfeeding practices among first-time mothers and across multiple pregnancies

T Sutherland, CB Pierce, JL Blomquist… - Maternal and child health …, 2012 - Springer
To investigate maternal characteristics associated with breastfeeding initiation and success.
Women enrolled in the Mothers Outcomes After Delivery study reported breastfeeding …

Breastfeeding and employment

MH Kearney, L Cronenwett - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Breastfeeding problems, outcomes, and satisfaction of married, well‐educated first‐time
mothers who returned to work within six months postpartum were compared to those of …

Workplace leave and breastfeeding duration among postpartum women, 2016–2018

K Kortsmit, R Li, S Cox… - … journal of public …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To examine associations of workplace leave length with breastfeeding initiation
and continuation at 1, 2, and 3 months. Methods. We analyzed 2016 to 2018 data for 10 …

A prospective study of breastfeeding intentions of healthy weight and overweight women as predictors of breastfeeding outcomes

SJ de Jersey, K Mallan, J Forster, LA Daniels - Midwifery, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Women with a higher BMI are at increased risk of breastfeeding for a shorter
duration, however it is unclear if weight status itself or other factors such as feeding …

Retrospective cohort study of the association between maternal employment precarity and infant low birth weight in women in the USA

D Patil, DA Enquobahrie, T Peckham, N Seixas… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To investigate the association between maternal employment precarity and infant
low birth weight (LBW), and to assess if this association differs by race/ethnicity. Methods …

Prevalence and predictors of exclusive breastfeeding at hospital discharge

SD McDonald, E Pullenayegum… - Obstetrics & …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the population-based prevalence and predictors of exclusive
breastfeeding at hospital discharge in singleton and twin term newborns. METHODS: We …

Breastfeeding challenges and support in a high initiation population

DR Zimmerman, M Kaplan, H Shoob… - Israel Journal of Health …, 2022 - Springer
Background The breastfeeding initiation rate in Israel is approximately 90%, yet exclusive
breastfeeding drops sharply in the early postnatal period. The study objective was to assess …