Breastfeeding promotion in family planning programs.
Family planning programs serve large numbers of women of childbearing, and thus breastfeeding, age. Although these programs appear to have a number of characteristics which would be useful for promoting and supporting breastfeeding, most family planning programs have done very little in this area. The Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) and the Institute for International Studies in Natural Family Planning are working to find ways to remove barriers to family planning breastfeeding promotion efforts. Such barriers include lack of or conflicting measures of program success and lack of information on the breastfeeding/fertility relationship. The Institute is developing guidelines to help family planning programs promote breastfeeding.
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Georgetown University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington, DC 20007.
D001942:Breast Feeding; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans