Dear Friends:
 
What about using the Labbok and Krasovec definitions?
Or do folks find them deficient?
 
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 _Stud Fam  Plann._ (javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour', 'Stud Fam Plann.');)  
1990 Jul-Aug;21(4):226-30. Toward consistency in  breastfeeding definitions.
 
_Labbok  M_ 
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term="Labbok%20M"[Author]&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.
Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus) , _Krasovec  K_ 
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term="Krasovec%20K"[Author]&itoo
l=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubme
d_RVAbstractPlus) .
 
On April 28.1988, the Interagency Group for Breastfeeding met to develop  and 
agree on definitions that can be used as standard terminology for the  
description and collection of cross-sectional information on breastfeeding  
behavior. The potential framework and scheme were much reviewed by breastfeeding  
researchers and program personnel, revised at subsequent meetings by many  
organizations, and compared against published research. The schema divides  
breastfeeding into 2 categories: 1) full; and 2) partial. Partial includes 3  levels of 
feeding--medium, high, and low. Full breastfeeding is divided into  exclusive 
and almost exclusive. Token breastfeeding, a 3rd category, is not for  
nutritive purposes. The framework includes additional parameters: 1) time  
postpartum or child's age; 2) frequency; 3) intervals; 4) duration; 5)  artificial 
nipples or other devices; 6) type, timing, and amount of other  feedings; 7) 
expression of breast milk and later use and 8) other influences.  Using the 
framework and schema, one can fully describe breastfeeding behavior at  a single 
point in time. This schema has made major contributions: 1) distinction  between 
"full" and "partial" breastfeeding; 2) the differentiation among partial  
breastfeeding levels; 3) the subdivision of full breastfeeding into categories  of 
"exclusive" and "almost exclusive" 4) the recognition that there is "token"  
breastfeeding with little or no nutritional impact.
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warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN,  BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy  practitioner
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