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Article: Breastfeeding: benefits and implications. Part one
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- Community Practitioner
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- May 1, 2005
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BREASTFEEDING
Having previously looked at the benefits of breastfeeding and discussed the controversies surrounding the subject, JUNE THOMPSON begins a two-part update to coincide with National Breastfeeding Awareness Week by looking at the factors which may discourage women from starting to, or continuing breastfeeding and looks at the advantages of breastfeeding for mothers
Community practitioner 2005; 78, 5: 183-184
The incidence of breastfeeding is defined as the proportion of babies who were breastfed initially. This includes all babies who were put to the breast at all, even if this was on one occasion only.
According to the Infant Feeding Survey 2000,1 between 1985 and 1990, ...