Breastfeeding provides significant health benefits for infants and mothers. However, the
United States continues to fall short of the breastfeeding goals set by the Healthy People …

All major health organizations recommend breastfeeding as the optimal source of infant
nutrition, with exclusive breastfeeding recommended for the first six months of life. After six …

Effective breastfeeding support is a fundamental component of providing family-centered
care. For many years, the American Academy of Family Physicians and other leading health …

Although most women in the United States initiate breastfeeding, more than one half wean
earlier than they desire. As reproductive health experts and advocates for women's health …

Several socioeconomic, cultural, and personal factors are known to influence a woman's
choice of infant feeding. Currently, breastfeeding is most common among women who are …

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 BREASTFEEDING PROVIDES ideal infant nutrition and is the physiologic norm
for mothers and children. 1, 2 Mothers often make a decision regarding breastfeeding early …

1. Purpose The purpose of this position statement is to emphasize the extent to which
physicians play a central role in the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding. We …

Abstract Hospital breastfeeding initiation rates (75%) show that most mothers in the United
States want to breastfeed and are trying to do so. Even from the very start, however, mothers …

Breastfeeding is the evolved human infant feeding norm, practiced historically and across
cultures. Over the past 200 years, breastfeeding practices have eroded, reaching a nadir in …