When I was born in 1955, I was fed infant formula at the direction of my mother's physician.
Although my mother was interested in breastfeeding, and my grandmother told her that she …

BREAST-FEEDING: CURRENT KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF
PAEDIATRICIANS AND OBSTETRICIANS. Page 1 RESEARCH BREAST-FEEDING …

Physicians, nurses, nursing personnel, and hospitals need to examine their practices and
procedures that encourage or discourage breast-feeding. The cultural attitudes and life …

Background: Little information is available about the degree to which obstetricians promote
breastfeeding through patient care practices and educational activities. The purpose of this …

Universal breastfeeding is recommended by the American College of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (ACOG), the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International …

The Healthy People 2000 objectives for breastfeeding were to move the breastfeeding
initiation rate to 75% from 54% and the breastfeeding continuation rate to 50% at age 6 …

Assisting women with breastfeeding is not a new concept. Through the ages, women have
helped each other master this fine art. When breastfeeding began to diminish and artificial …

Much of the debate about breastfeeding is framed as the" mother's choice." As providers, we
must always respect mothers' choices about how they feed their babies. However, there are …