> On 9 Dec. 2016, at 3:42 pm, Debra Swank <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> Four new studies follow, three of which have been published: 
> 
> 1)  New mothers are increasingly using expressed breast milk rather than directly breastfeeding their babies, according to a new study at the University of British Columbia at Okanagan.
> 
> The ScienceDaily news release: 
> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161207092831.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fbreastfeeding+%28Breastfeeding+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
> 
> Authors:  Dorothy Li Bai, Daniel Yee Tak Fong, Kris Yuet Wan Lok, Janet Yuen Ha Wong, Marie Tarrant
> Title:  Practices, predictors and consequences of expressed breast-milk feeding in healthy full-term infants
> In:  Public Health Nutrition 2016; 1 DOI: 10.1017/S136898001600241X

I can only get to the abstract, not the full study; but the abstract doesn’t support the ScienceDaily lede that women in Hong Kong were turning to expressed breast milk instead of direct BF. What I can see of the abstract would suggest that many of them were more likely turning to expressed breast milk rather than formula feeding, when establishing or sustaining breastfeeding was difficult.

In further support of my take, the breastfeeding rate (at hospital discharge0 in Hong Kong has been increasing, not decreasing, over the study period.

Lara Hopkins
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