The effect of breastfeeding promotion on the infertile postpartum period.
A new project is testing whether a breastfeeding promotion program will change breastfeeding behavior and the length of postpartum amenorrhea. The control group and 100 of the eventual 400 experimental subjects have been recruited. The program consists of workshops, prenatal care, maternity ward postpartum care, early home visits, and a breastfeeding outpatient clinic. Early results seem to indicate decreased use of pacifiers and foods and fluids other than breast milk by women in the study group.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago.
D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000502:physiology*; D011247:Pregnancy