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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effectiveness of Breastfeeding Support Packages in Low- and Middle-Income Countries for Infants under Six Months: A Systematic Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding counseling and education support packages have the greatest impact on breastfeeding practices followed by breastfeeding training, promotion, and peer support. For at-risk infants, support packages need to be adapted and formally tested. Additional research should examine the impacts of breastfeeding support on anthropometry and morbidity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Characteristics Associated with the Transition to Partial Breastfeeding Prior to 6 Months of Age: Data from Seven Sites in a Birth Cohort Study
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
A higher weight-for-length of the child, recent coughing, and food insecurity were associated with slower transition to partial breastfeeding, while a higher maternal depressive symptom score was associated with earlier transition to partial breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices of Working Mothers in the Informal Economy in New Delhi: A Formative Study to Explore New Intervention Pathways towards Improved Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
The conditions and nature of informal employment shape maternal and child health outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gender Inclusivity is Not Gender Neutrality
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Breastfeeding
Authors call for examining how the gendering of breastfeeding, infant feeding, caregiving, and nurturing align with the social distribution of power, authority, and resources in ways that reinforce gender inequality in political, economic, and social status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID Vaccines and Breastfeeding: What the Data Say
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingCOVID-19
Early research indicates that vaccines do not pass through breast milk—but antibodies do.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Affects Dietary Intake, Micronutrient Intake, Gestational Weight Gain, and Breastfeeding in Uttar Pradesh, India: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation
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BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Nutrition-intensified antenatal care (ANC), which provides more home visits and counseling on core nutrition messages than traditional ANC programs, increased iron–folic acid and calcium supplement intake. It also increased exclusive breastfeeding, consumption of vitamin A–rich foods and other vegetables and fruits, and gestational weight gain.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research on Barriers and Facilitators to Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice in Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Breastfeeding
Maternal employment is the greatest barrier to exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) while knowledge of the benefits of EBF is the greatest facilitator. Interventions focusing on these and other maternal-infant factors will optimize EBF and improve maternal-child health outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding: Not Just Mom’s Job—How USAID Promotes and Protects Breastfeeding
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Optimal breastfeeding is one of the most powerful solutions to save the lives of infants and children. Improving breastfeeding extends beyond supporting the woman and child—requiring encouragement and support from skilled counselors, family members, health care providers, employers, policymakers, and others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Breastfeeding: Providing a Healthy Start for a Healthy Future
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
This one minute animated video discusses the benefits of breastfeeding for both baby and mother. USAID has worked with partners for more than 40 years to promote breastfeeding in programs and policies, helping families chart productive and prosperous futures for their children, and supporting communities to thrive.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Feeding Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ensuring Their Future Growth and Development
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Healthy complementary feeding after 6 months of age requires foods from four food groups daily. In addition to breastfeeding, babies need 2–3 meals and one snack per day. Sugary snacks and formula are unhealthy options for young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding in the 21st Century
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Countries need to invest in policies and programs that support women’s breastfeeding decisions. Promoting lactation-friendly employment conditions, and ensuring the availability of health services that support women and their families in breastfeeding, are particularly important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021 World Health Day: Improve Global Breastfeeding Practices
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingCOVID-19
All actors should take a public health approach to strengthen the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and breastfeeding counseling, including during emergencies; implement maternal social protection that includes paid leave and workplace support in the formal and informal sectors; advocate for greater access to skilled breastfeeding counseling; and reinforce support for breastfeeding dyads by dev
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Lancet Breastfeeding Series
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Papers describe global breastfeeding trends, short- and long-term health consequences for mother and child, determinants of breastfeeding, the impact of investment in breastfeeding, the effectiveness of promotion interventions, and the need for coordinated global action to address breast milk substitutes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Protecting Nature's Perfect Food System
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Economic Growth
In addition to women’s time, energy, capacity, and skill, breastfeeding requires family, health facility, community, employer, and policy support. Sociocultural factors, health care practices and policies, paid leave policies and legislation, a lack of skilled support, and aggressive marketing of breast milk substitutes all impact likelihood of breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Celebrating 40 years of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
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Food Systems
Breastfeeding
Articles focus on the history of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes; the need to address unethical marketing and further implement and enforce the Code; and additional steps to take to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
First-Food Systems Transformations and the Ultra-Processing of Infant and Young Child Diets: The Determinants, Dynamics, and Consequences of the Global Rise in Commercial Milk Formula Consumption
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Increasing formula sales are linked to rising incomes, urbanization, social norms, women's work, medicalization, and the globalization of the industry. Companies use diverse and aggressive marketing techniques to grow their markets, including product diversification, digital marketing, and health professional co-optation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Attitudes and Perceptions about Breastfeeding Among Female and Male Informal Workers in India and South Africa
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Food Systems
Breastfeeding
Most women surveyed understood the benefits of breastfeeding and initiated breastfeeding, but household responsibilities and financial obligations frequently forced an early return to work. This led to changes in infant feeding practices, including adding breast milk substitutes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Revisiting Humanitarian Action Early: Planting the Seeds for a New Generation
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency Nutrition
Analysis of Humanitarian and Refugee Response Plans indicates Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) recommendations are often not included. Advocates recommend increasing investments for pregnant women and their children in humanitarian contexts, building the frontline workforce and health services to support safe and healthy births, and applying the NCF in all phases of emergencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
India: Family Participatory Care: A Gateway to Nurturing Small and Sick Newborns
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Based on research showing that providing parents continuous access to their babies after delivery improved breastfeeding before discharge, the Indian National Health Mission developed an educational series to teach handwashing skills and infection prevention, kangaroo and developmentally supportive care, preparation for discharge, and care at home.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding: A Key Investment in Human Capital
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Economic Growth
The Human Capital Index (HCI) suggests that, on average, a child born in sub-Saharan Africa is likely to reach only 40 percent of their full earnings potential. Because undernutrition and child mortality rates contribute significantly to the HCI, breastfeeding is a key factor in human capital development. This article is behind a paywall.