Objectives. To understand the barriers and facilitators that lactation professionals and
supporters (LPSs) in the Appalachian region of the United States experience when …

African American and low-income women by providing direct services. Collectively, grantees
reported 92,832 one-on-one support encounters with pregnant and breastfeeding women …

The existence of institutional oppression in the field of breastfeeding is not a matter of
conjecture. For example, research at the national level in the United States documents …

Background: Clinical lactation professionals, breastfeeding peer counseling, and mother-to-
mother support are important sources of information and guidance for helping mothers …

Background: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's (MDPH) Mass in Motion
Program (MiM) facilitates the adoption of community-level strategies that promote healthy …

Background Human milk is widely recommended as the gold standard of infant feeding by
many medical and health organizations including the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine …

Georgia's grassroots lactation advocates—physicians, nurses, peer counselors,
breastfeeding families, Certified Lactation Counselors (CLC), International Board Certified …

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) funded 9 local breastfeeding
coalitions to implement breastfeeding support groups and to develop breastfeeding …

Background Leading health agencies in the United States recognize breastfeeding as a
public health priority (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012; American Public Health …

Background: Implementing evidence-based practices and policies for breastfeeding support
in community clinics is a promising, but challenging, approach to reducing disparities in …