Breastfeeding women often need to take medicines, and therefore health professionals
need to consider the effects of medication on lactation and the breastfed infant, and any …

Cannabis is one of the most commonly used substances in Canada with 15% of Canadians
reporting use in 2019. There is emerging evidence that cannabis is linked to an impact on …

Recent increases in maternal cannabis use, in combination with rapidly changing cannabis
policies in the United States, pose a unique threat to maternal and child health. To date, 33 …

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly
known as WIC, is the nation's premier preventive public health nutrition program. The WIC …

My journey as an infertility patient began far more recently—midway, ironically, through my
own fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. In a surreal role …

Background: Approximately 5% of breastfeeding women report using cannabis. Little is
understood about perceived benefits and risks of cannabis use; thus, this study aimed to fill …

The global public health sector, represented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), records its support for breastfeeding as a …

The growing opioid crisis in the United States affects childbearing women and their infants at
an alarming rate. Substance use disorders in pregnancy have transitioned from a topic …

Objectives: To conduct a secondary data analysis of how changes in smoking and drinking
during pregnancy impact status of any breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in a …

Introduction: Data on baseline rates of nonserious events in breastfed infants in the general
population are sparse. This results in difficulty determining if there is an increase in infant …