In a message dated 6/16/99 4:07:20 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<<I am trying to obtain articles looking at bf effect on maltreatment. >>
Allison:
From<<Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:25:26 -0600
From: Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: BF and child abuse prevention
Does anyone remember the reference about a study done in the Caribbean
suggesting that breastfed children are much less likely to be abused by
their parents than bottle-fed children? The risk reduction sticks in my
mind as 19 times less likely for breastfed children.........>>
From: <<Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 06:42:45 -0600
From: "Barbara Wilson-Clay,BSE,IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: child abuse
Kathy Dettwyler (hello Kathy!) asks about a large Carribean study re: an
affect on reduction of child abuse from bfg. In the Jelliffe's book:
Programmes to Promote Breastfeeding, 1988, Oxford Univer. Press, there is a
chapt. by Leonard Mata, Promotion of breastfeeding in Costa Rica: the
Puriscal study. It observed 77,847 infants born in a poor, inner city
hospt. over a 7 yr per to see if promotion of early bonding exper (ie early
contact for bfg, rooming in) would influence bfg rates. It did (early
weanings-- defined as prior to 9 mo -- were reduced by about 1/2 in the
early contact group.) Most interestingly to me, the rate of child
abandonment went way down in the study group. Tying together the concepts
of optimal birth and extended bfg the researcher's noted "a sharp decline in
the rate of abandoned newborns, whether ill or healthy: an observation of
great public health significance." pg. 66>>
<<The Uniqueness of Human Milk, D.B and E.F Jelliffe, editors.
pg 997.
"A ..study on 60 mothers followed from the time of birth of their firstborn
until the baby was 6 months old found that significantly less neuroticism was
manifested by mothers who chose to breast feed [sic]. In addition, there was
a significant inverse relationship between the length of time breast feeding
and the extent of the mother's neuroticism."
Cornell, M.M. Psychological variables in the mother related to infant feeding
patterns. Dissertation Abstracts 29B3. 1969, p.3479B Order number 4522.
From pg. 999 of same source:
"On the infra-human level, when four rhesus monkeys grew up bottle fed and
away from a mother, they developed abnormal maternal behavior when they
themselves became mothers. Two of the mothers did eventually permit fairly
frequent nursing, but their apparently closer maternal relations were
accompanied by more violent abuse."
Harlow, H. F. and M.k. Harlow. Social deprivation in monkeys. Sci Amer.
207: 136, 1962.>>
Deb
Deborah Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
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