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Breastfeeding: Associations with Child Health Outcomes From Birth to 6 Years of Age

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
This session addresses associations of breastfeeding with various child health outcomes from infancy through six years of age. Presenters provide results of studies exploring relationships of breastfeeding initiation, duration, and/or intensity with growth trajectory, children's eating behaviors, and infections. Data sources include two New York-based studies, and the CDC/FDA Infant Feeding Practices Study II Follow-up Study.
Session Objectives: Discuss the relationship between early-life risk factors and children's grown from birth to 2 years. Describe at least two child health outcomes associated with breastfeeding. Explain how maternal feeding styles related to milk feeding methods are associated with children's eating behaviors at six years of age.
Moderator:
Briana Jegier, PhD, CLC

4:30pm
Breastfeeding duration moderates the association between early-life risk factors and growth trajectory from birth to 2 years   
Stacy Carling, MS, Margaret Demment, PhD and Christine Olson, PhD
4:50pm
Relationship of human milk feeding with infant health outcomes: A longitudinal analysis of BINGO and pairings study data   
Nathan C. Nickel, MPH, PhD, Nathaniel MacHardy, Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM, IBCLC, FABM, Josephine Barnett, MS and Karen Bonuck, PhD
5:10pm
Breastfeeding is associated with reduced risk of infections at age 6 years   
Ruowei Li, MD, PhD, Deborah Dee, PhD, MPH; CDR, USPHS, Chuan-Ming Li, MD, PhD, Howard J. Hoffman, MA and Laurence Grummer-Strawn, PhD
     
5:30pm
Are milk feeding methods in early infancy associated with maternal feeding styles and children's eating behaviors at 6 years old?   
Ruowei Li, MD, PhD, Kelley S. Scanlon, PhD, Ashleigh L. May, PhD and Leann Birch, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Breastfeeding Forum
Endorsed by: Maternal and Child Health, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Disability

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

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