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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