title: Unintended pregnancy and breast-feeding behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study assessed the effect of unintended pregnancy on breast-feeding behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  All women delivering a live birth between January 1, 1995, and July 31, 1996 (n = 33,735), in the 15-county central New York region were asked whether they had intended to become pregnant and their breast-feeding plans.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women with mistimed pregnancies, and pregnancies that were not wanted were significantly less likely to breast-feed than were women whose pregnancies were planned. After adjustment for confounding variables and contraindications for breast-feeding, the odds ratios of not breast-feeding remained significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Promoting breast-feeding among women with unintended pregnancies is important to improve health status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, USA.
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Dye
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Wojtowycz
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Aubry
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quade
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kilburn
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted / Q000523:psychology*