As an enthusiastic and committed advocate for breast-feeding, I, along with other
colleagues, at times lose the perspective that goals of infant feeding are to provide adequate …

Good morning. And it is a wonderful morning. I don't know about you, but I've come to
recognize that there aren'ta lot of advantages associated with growing older. There are a …

Rasmussen et al.'s provocative article, suggesting a new lexicon for our use of the term
''breastfeeding,''poses no less a challenge to those of us with editorial responsibility as it …

The response to Amy Kennedy's ''Perspective''article in a recent issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine entitled ''Breast or Bottle—The Illusion of Choice''1 has been in many …

Worldwide,> 90% of women initiate breastfeeding, and more than half continue
breastfeeding for at least 12 months after birth. Caring for the breastfeeding dyad thus …

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 …

The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend infants
are breastfed exclusively (no other foods or liquids besides their mother's/gestational …

Although the 2022 policy statement on breastfeeding from the American Academy of
Pediatrics primarily addresses clinicians caring for pediatric patients, the Academy urges …

Readers of this journal need not be convinced regard-ing the evidence-based short and
long medical benefits of an infant feeding diet based on the provision human milk …

BREASTFEEDING MEDICINE has been honored with the opportunity to publish the
Executive Summary (1) of the Surgeon General's Call to Action. This report was released on …