5071.0 Breastfeeding Practices: Drivers and Outcomes

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session will detail the impact of breastfeeding on health outcomes and the impact of provider practices on breastfeeding outcomes.
Session Objectives: Describe the health outcomes associated with breastfeeding duration. Describe the impact of provider practices on breastfeeding outcomes. Discuss mechanisms that can improve provider practices to support breastfeeding duration.
Organizer:
Briana Jegier, PhD, CLC
Moderator:
Briana Jegier, PhD, CLC

8:30am
Welcoming Remarks
8:35am
Breastfeeding practices and weight retention at one year postpartum: The importance of breastfeeding intensity and duration
Deborah Dee, PhD, MPH; LCDR, USPHS and Andrea Sharma, PhD, MPH; CDR, USPHS
     
8:45am
Association between bags given at discharge and breastfeeding outcomes: Data from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II
Radha Sadacharan, BA, MPH, Xena Grossman, MS, RD and Anne Merewood, PhD, MPH, IBCLC
     
8:55am
Timing of discussion of infant-feeding method and its relationship to breastfeeding initiation
Penny Liberatos, PhD and Sophia McIntyre-Daniel, MD, MPH
9:05am
Is Breast Still Best? A Narrative Review of Current Literature on HIV & Infant Feeding in the Developing World
Tyra Gross, MPH and Alex Kojo Anderson, PhD, MPH, CPH
     
  
9:15am
Relationship between the maternal Stress to Resiliency Ratio (SRR) during pregnancy and breastfeeding initiation: Findings from the 2007 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (LAMB) study
Fathima Wakeel, PhD, MPH, Lauren E. Wisk, BS, Rebekah Gee, MD, MPH, MSHPR, Shin Margaret Chao, PhD, MPH and Whitney P. Witt, PhD, MPH
     
9:25am
Discussion

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Breastfeeding Forum

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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