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Is Baby Friendly Status Essential for Optimal Postpartum Breastfeeding Care?

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Is Baby Friendly Status Essential for Optimal Postpartum Breastfeeding Care?

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–> Home | Browse by Day | or Program | Author Index 174260 Is Baby Friendly Status Essential for Optimal Postpartum Breastfeeding Care? Monday, October 27, 2008: 9:15 AM Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD , Community and Preventive Medicine/Social and Behavioral Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Cindy R. Howard, MD, MPH , Pediatrics, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY Cynthia K. Childs, MFA, MPH , Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Hongmei Yang, PhD , Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Ruth A. Lawrence, MD , Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Audio (mp3) recording Multimedia recording Background: Among breastfeeding (BF) women, delivering in a Baby Friendly setting is known to increase BF duration. This prospective cohort study to ascertain BF duration among women delivering at two similarly sized hospitals (Baby Friendly (BFH) (n=429); community hospital (CH) (n=414) with a well established BF prog