JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT CITES RESULTS OF STUDY ON U.S. INFANT FEEDING AND
CARE PRACTICES
The October 2008 supplement to Pediatrics presents the first set of
results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II, conducted
collaboratively by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. The 13 articles in the supplement,
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources, provide
results on several feeding issues: breastfeeding patterns, intensity,
and duration; reasons for stopping breastfeeding; and transitional and
complementary feeding, including provision of iron-rich foods and
supplements to breastfed infants. The articles examine the association
between mothers' behaviors with respect to their infants' feeding and
certain factors that may support or limit mothers' choices, including
the maternity care practices of the place where they delivered and the
breastfeeding-related options associated with their place of employment.
The articles also describe and analyze patterns of breast milk
expression; infant-formula-handling practices; infant sleeping
arrangements; and food-related health problems, including food allergy.
One article analyzes the effects of breastfeeding intensity,
infant-initiated bottle emptying, and mothers' encouragement of bottle
emptying on excess weight during infancy. Abstracts of supplement
articles are available at
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/vol121/Supplement_4/index.shtml.
Readers: More information is available from the following MCH Library
resource:
- Breastfeeding: Resource Brief at
http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides/breastfeeding.html
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Sylvia Ann Ellison, M.A.
Center for Global Health Systems, Management, and Policy
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
3123 Research Blvd., #200, Kettering, OH 45420-4006
937-258-5545; FAX 937-258-5544
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Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment
lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.
- Frank Oski, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, 1985-1996
Founding Editor, Contemporary Pediatrics
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