The COVID Mothers Study: How ABM’s Worldwide Network of Physicians Collaborated on Urgent Research

3 év 1 hónap ago
By Melissa Bartick, MD, MS, FABM This week, the results of the COVID Mothers Study were published in Breastfeeding Medicine, providing more evidence that it may be safe to keep mothers and newborns together and, importantly, that separating them causes significant harm.  Indeed, as the authors point out, the “significantly low rate of [neonatal] hospitalization […]
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ABM Candid Conversations: A Virtual Interview with Protocol Authors Helen Johnson, MD and Katrina Mitchell, MD IBCLC

3 év 5 hónap ago
ABM is excited to launch the beginning of our Candid Conversations series, featuring ABM members and their various initiatives within the Academy as well as their professional lives. This week, ABM sat down virtually with Helen Johnson, MD and Katrina Mitchell, MD IBCLC, two authors of our most recent protocol Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding, to […]
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New Protocol on Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding

3 év 9 hónap ago
New Rochelle, NY, June 10, 2020 — Managing women with breast cancer who are breastfeeding is a complex issue. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine presents new recommendations in the peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine. Click here to read the article now. “The aim of this new protocol is to guide clinicians in the delivery of optimal […]
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Pregnant and Lactating Women with COVID-19: Scant Clinical Research

3 év 9 hónap ago
New Rochelle, NY, May 18, 2020 — Pregnant and breastfeeding women have been excluded from clinical trials of drugs to treat COVID-19, and as result, there is no safety data to inform clinical decisions. Such drugs include remdesivir according to a new article in the peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine. Click here to read the article. […]
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Should infants be separated from COVID-19-positive mothers?

3 év 11 hónap ago
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC./GENETIC ENGINEERING NEWS New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020–In a new commentary, Alison Stuebe, MD, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, addresses the risks and benefits of separating infants from COVID-19-positive mothers following birth. Although multiple public health organizations recommended keeping mothers and infants together, the United States’ Centers for Disease […]
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Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Publishes New Bedsharing Guidelines

4 év 2 hónap ago
By Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc, FABM The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has released its updated Bedsharing and Breastfeeding Protocol. The protocol presents evidence-based recommendations synthesized by an international collaboration of authorities on the topic who conducted a rigorous review of the literature. Aimed at physicians and other health care professionals caring for families who have […]
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Team-based primary care breastfeeding support

4 év 3 hónap ago
Imagine seeing a breastfeeding family two days after hospital discharge and having the time needed to correct latch, help manage engorgement, or review hand expression and supplementation for the baby with poor weight gain.  Health care provider support improves breastfeeding initiation and duration.  Yet, too often primary care providers (PCP) do not have the time […]
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Baby Friendly Increases Breastfeeding Rates— The Problem with the Fancy Graph Study

4 év 3 hónap ago
By Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc, FABM Did the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative meet its intended goal of increasing breastfeeding across the United States? A recent study claims it failed. The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics by Bass and colleagues, is replete with fancy statistics and graphs, but the obvious answer is that Baby-Friendly is […]
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Towards Improved Support for Medical Trainees Who Are Breastfeeding

4 év 6 hónap ago
Dr. Helen Johnson Ironically, physicians have some of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the United States. Despite acute awareness of the medical risks of not breastfeeding and deep commitment to educating their patients about the importance of breastfeeding, many physician mothers face significant challenges in their own breastfeeding efforts. Medical trainees – including medical […]
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First Droplets Website: Empower Parents Enable Breastfeeding #WBW2019

4 év 7 hónap ago
By Dr. Jane Morton “I’m going to try.” This is the tentative answer many mothers give, instead of “Yes, I’m going to breastfeed!” Why do so many women worry that breastfeeding may be complicated, painful and probably dependent on professional help? If breastfeeding is so natural, why doesn’t it come naturally, as it seems to […]
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Support for Lactating Medical Trainees

4 év 9 hónap ago
Authored by: Sarah Shubeck, MD and Megan Pesch, MD, MS The culture of medical training and demands of residency work is often regarded as not conducive to the needs of lactating physicians. The need for “breaks” or perceived lack of dedication to workplace can lead to misperception of lactating trainees and pressures to stop milk […]
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ABM’s Model Maternity Policy Supportive of Breastfeeding: More than just a protocol revision

5 év 3 hónap ago
The new ABM Clinical Protocol #7 could have just been the revision of an outdated protocol. That was my idea when I received Wendy Brodribb’s invitation to help update the 2011 Breastfeeding Hospital Policy protocol. Being the national coordinator of the Baby-Friendly Initiative in Spain, a member of the BFHI coordinator’s network, and a practicing pediatrician, I […]
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Reclaiming “Breastfeeding” from “Human Milk:” Politics, Public Health, and the Power of Money

5 év 4 hónap ago
When the federal government funds research in human milk composition, ultimately the fruits of that research are often likely to end up enriching the formula industry, the biotech industry, and the researchers who hold their patents. Most importantly, federal research money spent on human milk composition may mean the government has less to spend on research issues that will help increase breastfeeding rates and improve population health.
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Marijuana and Breastfeeding

5 év 6 hónap ago
Health care providers counseling breastfeeding mothers should have an informed discussion weighing carefully the risks of cannabinoid exposure and potential impact on neurodevelopment against the benefits of breastfeeding. Current data suggest that the safest choice is no use of marijuana while breastfeeding.
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Worldwide study on sudden infant death finds factors associated with poverty and racism are more important than bedsharing

5 év 6 hónap ago
Last week, we published our novel study, “Sudden Infant Death and Social Justice: A Syndemics Approach,” showing that bedsharing – which has been the main focus of many interventions – is not the primary risk behind sudden infant death. Instead, factors associated with poverty and racism have much more to do with Sudden Unexplained Infant […]
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ABM’s First Australia/ New Zealand Regional Conference

5 év 7 hónap ago
The inaugural ABM Australia/New Zealand Regional Conference was held  at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on July 20-21 2018 with over 85 registrants from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan.   The conference was preceded by a one day workshop “Breastfeeding Essentials for Medical Practitioners” which is a Australian/NZ version of the ABM ‘What every […]
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