A pediatrician's daily routine abounds with opportunities to provide appropriate evaluation,
intervention, information, and encouragement for breastfeeding infants and their families …

Increasing the rates of both initiation of breastfeeding and duration of breastfeeding are
national health objectives. In the United States, the actual in-hospital breastfeeding initiation …

Background: Childhood obesity is a national epidemic in the United States. Increasing the
proportion of mothers who breastfeed is one important public health strategy for preventing …

To combat the worldwide decline in breastfeeding rates, the World Health Organization and
UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in 1991. Using the Ten Steps to …

The value of breastfeeding for mothers, babies, and society is well established, yet in the
United States too many women do not breastfeed. The US Public Health Service set forth …

The goal of the recent American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statement1 was to
communicate the positive personal and public health ramifications of exclusive and …

Congratulations to the Section on Breastfeeding of the American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) on the release of the policy statement ''Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk.''1 …

Objective. To determine whether an individualized, prenatal and postnatal, lactation
consultant intervention resulted in increased cumulative intensity of breastfeeding up to 52 …

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 …

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 …