4271.0 Community Approaches to Breastfeeding

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 4:30 PM
Poster
Many community approaches to supporting and promoting breastfeeding have been implemented over the past 10 years. This session presents a current view of a number of approaches that have successfully been implemented and produced positive outcomes for breastfeeding mothers.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe how the personal journeys of breastfeeding women have affected their breastfeeding outcomes. 2. Discuss three environmental factors that can easily be modified to promote sustained breastfeeding. 3. Identify four ways the availability of environmental supports for breastfeeding have positively affected breastfeeding outcomes.
Organizers:
Mary Rose Tully, MPH, IBCLC and Joan E. Dodgson, RN MPH PhD

Board 1
Selected experiential predictors of breastfeeding initiation among WIC-eligible mothers at an urban private hospital in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005
Dina B. Passman, MPH, Jennifer E. Marsh, JD, PhD, MSN, Jennifer A.F. Tender, MD, IBCLC, Sarah S. Kin, BS, Zacharia Cherian, MD, Mudiwah A. Kadeshe, BSN, RNC, IBCLC and Marie Ann Draoui, MD
Board 2
Lactation support in the workplace: Impact on employee morale
Kathryn Suyes, RN, MPH and Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM, IBCLC, FABM
Board 3
What can Louisiana do to improve breastfeeding duration rates?
Meshawn Tarver, MPH and Jeanette H. Magnus, MD, PhD
Board 4
Realities of breastfeeding mothers' lives: A photovoice project
Eleanor S. Johnson, RN, MSN, IBCLC
  
Board 5
Differential impact of WIC peer counseling programs on breastfeeding across the state of Maryland
Susan M. Gross, PhD, MPH, RD, Joy P. Nanda, DSc, MS, MHS, Marycatherine Augustyn, PhD, Amy Resnik, MS, RD, CSP, LDN, Linda Kelly and David M. Paige, MD MPH
Board 6
Predictors of Breastfeeding Exclusivity and Duration in a WIC Sample
Sandi, M. Tenfelde, MSN, RN-C, WHNP and Lorna Finnegan, PhD, FNP
Board 7
Positive deviance approach in the improvement of child health nutrition practices in Lukulu of Zambia
Mary Kaoma, BSc
Board 8
A comparison of electrical breast pumps cleared by FDA in the past ten years
Michelle L. Byrne, Ameeta Parekh, PhD, Colin Pollard and Kathleen Uhl
Board 9
Infant feeding education and support in prenatal care
Linda C. McGrath, PhD, CHES, IBCLC and Vincent R. McGrath, EdD
Board 10
To breastfeed or not: How do mothers' feelings change over six months?
Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD, Cindy R. Howard, MD, MPH, Cynthia K. Childs, MFA, MPH, Carol Podgorski, PhD and Ruth A. Lawrence, MD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Socialist Caucus, Latino Caucus, Food and Nutrition, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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