Strategies to promote breast-feeding among adolescent mothers

Article Abstract:

Teenaged mothers who choose bottle-feeding after considering breast feeding are more likely to be poor, to have been encouraged to breastfeed, and to have friends who breast-fed. Researchers interviewed 693 new mothers 18 years old or younger, and found that breast feeding was more often considered by mothers who had a breast feeding role-model. Bottle feeding was most often chosen by mothers who thought that school or work would complicate breastfeeding. Mothers who breast-fed were more likely to rely on their own beliefs, rather than advice, to make their feeding decision.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Teenage mothers

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Health risk behaviors among pregnant adolescents with older partners

Article Abstract:

Pregnant teenagers with older partners may be more likely to engage in behaviors potentially harmful to their unborn child. Researchers reviewed medical charts and interviewed pregnant teenagers aged 12 to 17 years. Of them, 129 had a partner aged 20 or older who was five or more years older than the girl and 222 had partners within two years of their own age. Teenagers with older partners were three times as likely to have used marijuana within the previous month and twice as likely to have consumed alcohol during the same week as teens with same age partners.

Analysis, Behavior, Risk factors (Health), Pregnant girls, Pregnant teenagers

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Development of Feeding Practices During the First 5 Years of Life

Article Abstract:

Infants commonly receive bottle feeding long after they have begun eating solid foods. Researchers surveyed the parents of 216 newborns, and found that 42% of children were still bottle-fed after their second year of life. Only 19% of children were still breast-fed after one year of age. Mothers who returned to work were more likely to have children that remained bottle-fed than mothers who stayed at home. Infants with older siblings typically breast-fed longer, perhaps due to previous maternal experience with nursing.

United States

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