title: Establishing successful breastfeeding in the newborn period.
abstract: The first days after delivery of a newborn infant are critical for breastfeeding establishment. Successful initiation and continuation-especially of exclusive breastfeeding-have become public health priorities, but it is fraught with many individual- and systems-level barriers. In this article, we review how hospital newborn services can be constructed or restructured to support the breastfeeding mother-infant dyad so that they can achieve high levels of breastfeeding success. Important positive and negative factors from the prenatal period, and the preparation for hospital discharge are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Alison.v.holmes@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Alison V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Holmes
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D051556:Hyperbilirubinemia, Neonatal / Q000628:therapy; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000628:therapy; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007774:Lactation / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010351:Patient Discharge; D018743:Perinatal Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012386:Rooming-in Care; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States