The relationship between pacifier use, bottle feeding and breast feeding

Görbe, Éva; Kőhalmi, Barbara; Gaál, G.; Szánthó, András; Rigó, János; Harmath, Ágnes; Csabay, László; Szabo, G

doi:10.1080/jmf.12.2.127.131

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“…[31][32][33] This was a difficult change in practice. Baby-Friendly hospitals are required to support exclusive breast-feeding by not routinely giving out pacifiers or using artificial nipples when supplementing infants.…”

Section: No Artificial Nipplesmentioning

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The Baby-Friendly Journey in a US Public Hospital

Vasquez

Berg

2012

Journal of Perinatal &Amp; Neonatal Nursing

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In May of 2007, San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center became the first Baby-Friendly certified hospital in San Francisco. This quality improvement program began in 1999 and took 8 years to complete. Challenges to completing this goal included a population that has myriad social issues including non-English-speaking clients, drug abuse, poverty, and homelessness. Further complications included a constantly changing group of perinatal healthcare providers with little-to-no breast-feeding knowledge, hospital practices that did not support rooming-in and skin-to-skin contact, and lack of overall patient breast-feeding education. This article describes the process of implementing The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative quality improvement program, achieving certification and subsequent increase in breast-feeding rates. Breast-feeding initiation rates went from 81% in 2002 to 98% in 2010. Exclusivity rates did not change.

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The Baby-Friendly Journey in a US Public Hospital

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Berg

2012

Journal of Perinatal &Amp; Neonatal Nursing

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“…Some studies 14,17,37 examined pacifier use in the hospital only (consistent with a focus on implementation of Baby Friendly Hospital practices), while most studies looked at pacifier use at 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, or 6 months of age. In addition, some studies [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]33,34,37,38,[40][41][42] classified infants as pacifier users based on any pacifier use, while other studies 18,35,36,39 attempted to differentiate between frequent and occasional users.…”

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Pacifiers and Breastfeeding

O’Connor¹,

Tanabe²,

Siadaty³

et al. 2009

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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To summarize current evidence on the association between infant pacifier use and breastfeeding.Data Sources: MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, POPLINE, and bibliographies of identified articles.Study Selection: A search for English-language records (from January 1950 through August 2006) containing the Medical Subject Heading terms pacifiers and breastfeeding was conducted, resulting in 1098 reports. Duplicate and irrelevant studies were excluded, yielding 29 studies that fit inclusion criteria for the review (4 randomized controlled trials, 20 cohort studies, and 5 cross-sectional studies). Two independent reviewers abstracted data and scored these studies for quality; disagreements were settled through consensus with a third investigator. Main Exposure: Pacifier use. Main Outcome Measures: Breastfeeding duration or exclusivity. Results: Results from 4 randomized controlled trials revealed no difference in breastfeeding outcomes with different pacifier interventions (pacifier use during tube feeds, pacifier use at any time after delivery, an educational program for mothers emphasizing avoidance of pacifiers, and a UNICEF [United Nations Children's Fund]/World Health Organization Baby Friendly Hospital environment). Most observational studies reported an association between pacifier use and shortened duration of breastfeeding.Conclusions: The highest level of evidence does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity. The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of other complex factors, such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean. Ongoing quantitative and qualitative research is needed to better understand the relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding.

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Guidelines for Hospital Discharge of the Breastfeeding Term Newborn and Mother: “The Going Home Protocol”

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The relationship between pacifier use, bottle feeding and breast feeding

Abstract: We found an inverse correlation between pacifier usage and breast feeding. Breast feeding was most common among multiparous mothers.

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The Baby-Friendly Journey in a US Public Hospital

The Baby-Friendly Journey in a US Public Hospital

Pacifiers and Breastfeeding

Guidelines for Hospital Discharge of the Breastfeeding Term Newborn and Mother: “The Going Home Protocol”

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