Background: Hospital breastfeeding support practices can affect breastfeeding outcomes.
Learning collaboratives are an increasingly common strategy to improve practices in health …

Children, the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, and the European Milk
Banking Association), and a number of professional organizations (eg, ILCA and the …

Background: Addressing suboptimal breastfeeding initiation and duration rates is a priority
in the United States. To address challenges to improving these rates, the voices of the …

Background: The field of lactation currently uses breastfeeding rates to measure
effectiveness. While monitoring breastfeeding outcomes can provide insight into the …

New mothers are recommended to exclusively breastfeed their infants for the first six months
to provide optimal health for infant and mother. However, only 13.0% of mothers in …

Background: Mothers in the southeastern United States, including rural-dwelling and African
American mothers, have historically had low rates of breastfeeding; however, no studies …

Although there is little mention of LGBTQI parents in breastfeeding literature, the author has
heard positive firsthand accounts of breastfeeding support from individual LGBTQ parents …

Community-based lactation support groups help improve breastfeeding duration by offering
practical peer and professional help and counseling through the sharing of information and …

Abstract Objective While the Affordable Care Act improves access to lactation services for
many women across the US, low-income mothers in states without Medicaid expansion lack …

Background: Low breastfeeding rates persist as a health disparity among high-risk inner-city
mothers. We sought to obtain input of community health workers (CHWs) in preparation for a …