This article's aim is to review the literature on racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding
rates and practices, address barriers to breastfeeding among minority women, conduct a …

Objective: To review the literature on breastfeeding initiation and duration and to delineate
effective strategies for promoting positive breastfeeding behaviors. Data Sources …

Although they usually claim a very thorough search to retrieve every pertinent work, most
meta-analyses published in English restrict their search to papers which were also …

Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of
women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part …

PURPOSE We wanted to systematically review whether primary care-based interventions
improve initiation and duration of breastfeeding. METHODS Studies were found by …

Background It is estimated that about 40% of pregnancies in the world are unintended and
that the major part of these are unwanted. There are several reasons no or ineffective …

OBJETIVO: Revisar os benefícios da amamentação para a saúde da mulher. FONTES DOS
DADOS: Foram selecionados artigos publicados entre 1990 e 2004 nas bases de dados …

Lactation is a physiological state of hyperprolactinemia and associated amenorrhea.
Despite the fact that exact mechanisms standing behind the hypothalamus–pituitary–ovarian …

Breastfeeding delays the resumption of normal ovarian cycles by disrupting the pattern of
pulsatile release of GnRH from the hypothalamus and hence LH from the pituitary. The …

Objective To determine whether vulnerability factors (confidence with breastfeeding,
postpartum depression, supplementation, and perceived adequacy of support) are …