Breastfeeding rates have been chronicled in the United States throughout the past 50 years.
The general purpose of these descriptive data collections has been to provide public health …

THE CONVERGENCE OF WORK-RELATED constraints and tech-nological advances in
commercially available breast pumps has catalyzed a major shift. 1 Most human milkfeeding …

Objective. To update reported rates of breastfeeding through 1995 and to compare rates in
1995 with those from 1989. Methods. The Ross Laboratories Mothers' Survey, first …

Objective To examine breast-feeding initiation and continuation among women with recent
live births in 10 states. Study design By using Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring …

Objective. To update reported rates of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding through
2001 and to compare rates in 2001 to those from 1996. Methods. The Ross Laboratories …

The information on who, why, and when women breastfeed is surprisingly difficult to
ascertain with accuracy. There are 2 major components of the epidemiology of …

During the twentieth century, dramatic changes occurred in how US infants were fed. Almost
universal in the United States in 1900, the breastfeeding decreased until the mid-twentieth …

Our objective was to determine temporal patterns of breastfeeding among women delivering
infants in New York City (NYC) and compare national breastfeeding trends. All hospitals in …

Breastfeeding, in spite of proven benefits and energetic promotion, lags behind national
goals, is less prevalent in disadvantaged populations, and declines across successive …

1. Physicians can help limit infants' exposure to medications in human milk without
interfering with breastfeeding. 2. Maternal breast problems and conditions may be …