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Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation.

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Yourkavitch, J; Rasmussen, KM; Pence, BW; Aiello, A; Ennett, S; Bengtson, AM; Chetwynd, E; Robinson, W
Published in: Public Health Nutr
June 2018

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of early, regular breast-milk pumping on time to breast-milk feeding (BMF) and exclusive BMF cessation, for working and non-working women. DESIGN: Using the Infant Feeding Practices Survey II (IFPS II), we estimated weighted hazard ratios (HR) for the effect of regular pumping (participant defined) compared with non-regular/not pumping, reported at month 2, on both time to BMF cessation (to 12 months) and time to exclusive BMF cessation (to 6 months), using inverse probability weights to control confounding. SETTING: USA, 2005-2007. SUBJECTS: BMF (n 1624) and exclusively BMF (n 971) IFPS II participants at month 2. RESULTS: The weighted HR for time to BMF cessation was 1·62 (95 % CI 1·47, 1·78) and for time to exclusive BMF cessation was 1·14 (95 % CI 1·03, 1·25). Among non-working women, the weighted HR for time to BMF cessation was 2·05 (95 % CI 1·84, 2·28) and for time to exclusive BMF cessation was 1·10 (95 % CI 0·98, 1·22). Among working women, the weighted HR for time to BMF cessation was 0·90 (95 % CI 0·75, 1·07) and for time to exclusive BMF cessation was 1·14 (95 % CI 0·96, 1·36). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, regular pumpers were more likely to stop BMF and exclusive BMF than non-regular/non-pumpers. Non-working regular pumpers were more likely than non-regular/non-pumpers to stop BMF. There was no effect among working women. Early, regular pumpers may need specialized support to maintain BMF.

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Public Health Nutr

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1475-2727

Publication Date

June 2018

Volume

21

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1726 / 1736

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Women, Working
  • United States
  • Time Factors
  • Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Mothers
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Milk Expression
 

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Yourkavitch, J., Rasmussen, K. M., Pence, B. W., Aiello, A., Ennett, S., Bengtson, A. M., … Robinson, W. (2018). Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation. Public Health Nutr, 21(9), 1726–1736. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004281
Yourkavitch, Jennifer, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Brian W. Pence, Allison Aiello, Susan Ennett, Angela M. Bengtson, Ellen Chetwynd, and Whitney Robinson. “Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation.Public Health Nutr 21, no. 9 (June 2018): 1726–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004281.
Yourkavitch J, Rasmussen KM, Pence BW, Aiello A, Ennett S, Bengtson AM, et al. Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jun;21(9):1726–36.
Yourkavitch, Jennifer, et al. “Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation.Public Health Nutr, vol. 21, no. 9, June 2018, pp. 1726–36. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/S1368980017004281.
Yourkavitch J, Rasmussen KM, Pence BW, Aiello A, Ennett S, Bengtson AM, Chetwynd E, Robinson W. Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jun;21(9):1726–1736.
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Published In

Public Health Nutr

DOI

EISSN

1475-2727

Publication Date

June 2018

Volume

21

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1726 / 1736

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Women, Working
  • United States
  • Time Factors
  • Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Mothers
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Milk Expression