Background Hospitals that provide maternity care can play an important role in providing or
directing mothers to postdischarge breastfeeding support, which improves breastfeeding …

Abstract Background and Objectives: Despite the importance of breastfeeding, most US
women do not meet recommendations for length of any or exclusive breastfeeding. Support …

Background: Breastfeeding provides maternal and infant health benefits. Maternity care
practices encompassed in the 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding are positively …

Background Experiences during the birth hospitalization affect a family's ability to establish
and maintain breastfeeding. The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Ten Steps) …

Background: Experiences during the birth hospitalization affect breastfeeding outcomes. In
the United States, hospital policies and practices supportive of breastfeeding are routinely …

This qualitative study analyzes mothers' reports of breastfeeding care experiences from
pregnancy through infancy. Most research on medical support for breastfeeding examines a …

Introduction: The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative has had a positive impact on
breastfeeding initiation; however, little is known about posthospital infant feeding practices …

Objective To synthesize the extant research on the support of breastfeeding and breast milk
feeding and related practices in child care centers (ie, daycare centers) in the United States …

Rationale, aims and objectives To examine if initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive
breastfeeding on discharge in first‐time mothers increased after a change in hospital policy …

Background: Breastfeeding initiation in Washington State (Northwest United States) is high,
yet rates plummet by 3 months postpartum. In the United States, national quality …