My baby girl felt warm and heavy in my arms; would I really need this cold plastic pump to turn our shaky start at breastfeeding into what I could allow myself to define as a "success"?
These days simply putting the word breastfeeding into a blog post is like chumming the sea, and despite my first instinct being to yell "Get out of the water!" I want to believe that deep down, we all are operating under the assumption that we're on the same team.
Furthermore, in relation to effectiveness, the conservative assumptions that there would be no spillover of exclusive breastfeeding into the non-intervention population, and that dropouts would have no higher than the pre-intervention exclusive breastfeeding rates, were made for all scenarios.
We grouped breastfeeding into three categories: ever breastfeeding, predominant breastfeeding (FBF) for four months, and predominant breastfeeding for six months.
Failure to take breastfeeding into account may partly explain previous disparate results.
There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychologic or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer"[ 2].
"Together with labor groups such as the Department of Labor and Employment and the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, BBB will campaign to turn breastfeeding into a labor and workplace issue".
Other success factors have been the integration of additional life-saving interventions for children such as routine immunization, nutrition, handwashing with soap, and breastfeeding, into polio campaigns, particularly in the most under-served and high-risk areas.
Age at first live birth was grouped into four: <20, 20 24, 25 29, and 30 or older; lifetime duration of breastfeeding into five categories: ⩽24, 25 48, 49 72, 73 96, and >96 months.
